New Zealand Gazette – 1919 – No. 66

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✨ Amending Regulations for Soldiers

NUMB. 66

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1919.

Amending Regulations for the Protection of Soldiers and Discharged Soldiers.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of June, 1919.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, regulations intituled the Soldiers' Protection Regulations, 1919, were made under the authority of section twenty-six of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, for the protection of soldiers and discharged soldiers from the execution of civil judgments or process, proceedings in bankruptcy, forfeitures, the exercise of rights of distress or re-entry, the exercise of rights of sale or entry into possession in pursuance of any mortgage or other security, or the enforcement in any other manner of the civil obligations or liabilities of soldiers or discharged soldiers:
And whereas it is expedient to amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon him by the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, and of all other authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby amend the hereinbefore-recited regulations in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In these regulations the expression “the principal regulations” means the Soldiers' Protection Regulations, 1919.
Clause 2 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of “recently discharged soldier” the words “six months,” and substituting the words “twelve months.”
(1.) Nothing in clause 3 of the regulations hereinbefore referred to shall apply to proceedings taken with respect to the balance for the time being of an account current of any soldier or discharged soldier with any bank or approved trading company or approved merchant, or with respect to any mortgage, bill of sale, or other security securing such account current, and all such proceedings may be taken accordingly without the consent of the Attorney-General.
(2.) For the purposes of this clause an approved trading company or approved merchant means any company, firm, or person approved in that behalf by the Attorney-General.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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