STATUTORY RULES.
1923. No. 180
REGULATION UNDER THE TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919‑1920.
I, THE GOVERNOR‑GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919‑1920, to come into operation, forthwith.
Dated this 5th day of December, 1923.
(Signed) FORSTER
Governor‑General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
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Amendment of Treaty of Peace Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 25, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 20 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) of sub‑regulation (1) the following proviso:—
“Provided that payments in respect of the claims of British nationals for the proceed of the liquidation of their property, rights and interests mentioned in section IV. of Part X; of the Treaty and in the annex thereto, and for the enemy debts owing to them referred to in Article 290 of the Treaty shall rank in priority to any of the other payments mentioned in this paragraph”; and
(b) by inserting after sub‑regulation (1c) the following sub‑regulations:—
“(1d) The Controller may make the payments; mentioned in sub‑regulation (1) of this regulation out of funds made available to him by the Public Trustee, which funds the Public Trustee is hereby authorized to make available out of the proceeds of the realization, of property, rights and interests charged by that sub‑regulation:
Provided that where the claim of a British national arises out of an agreement made subsequently to the coming into force of the Treaty, the Controller, may, if he thinks fit, decline to pay the amount of the claim out of the funds made available to him under this regulation.
C.18097—Price 3d.
(1e) Payments authorized by the last preceding sub‑regulation to be made to:—
(a) British nationals who were on the tenth day of January, 1920, resident in the Commonwealth or in a Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth;
(b) British nationals born in Australia who were on the tenth day of January, 1920, resident outside the Commonwealth or any Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth; and
(c) Persons who were on the tenth day of January, 1920, British nationals by virtue of their having been naturalized in the Commonwealth, and who were on that date resident outside the Commonwealth or any Territory under the authority of the Commonwealth,
shall be made in priority to payments so authorized to be made to other British nationals.
(1f) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation the Public Trustee may, in. such cases as he thinks fit, satisfy out of the property, rights and interests of any German national charged under these Regulations claims made against such property, rights and interests.
(1g) The Controller or the Public Trustee, as the case requires, may deduct from any amount payable by him under this regulation a commission not exceeding two and one‑half per centum of the amount payable.”
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