STATUTORY RULES.
1920. No. 235.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE TREATY OF PEACE ACT 1919.
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 Act 1919 to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1920.
FORSTER,
Governor‑General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. MASSY GREENE,
Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
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Amendment of the Treaty of Peace Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1920 No. 25 as amended by Statutory Rules 1920 No. 61.)
After regulation 20 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Maintenance of certain dependants.
“20a. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations there may, if the Governor‑General so directs, be paid out of the net proceeds of any property retained by the Commonwealth under Article 297 of the Treaty, such sums as the Public Trustee deems sufficient for the maintenance in the Commonwealth of the wife and children of the person to whom the property belonged immediately prior to the coming into force of the Treaty.
Provided that no sums shall be paid in pursuance of this regulation—
(a) after the expiration of three years from the commencement thereof; or
(b) in cases where the wife was not, prior to her marriage, a natural‑born British subject.” (T. & C. 20/D. 18433.)
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