New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

Page 1688

✨ Legislative Orders



  1. (1.) Every person who is the father of a child, and who
    without reasonable cause fails to provide that child with adequate
    maintenance, and who at any time while failing so to do leaves or
    attempts to leave Samoa without the permission in writing of a
    Judge of the High Court, shall be guilty of an offence punishable by
    imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.

(2.) In any prosecution under this clause the burden of proving
that the permission of a Judge was so given shall be upon the accused.

  1. Every person who is the husband of any woman or the father
    of any child, and who leaves or attempts to leave Samoa with the
    intention of failing without reasonable cause to make adequate
    provision for the maintenance of that wife or child during his
    absence, shall be guilty of an offence punishable by imprisonment for
    any term not exceeding two years.

  2. Every person shall be deemed to attempt to leave Samoa
    within the meaning of this Order who does any act with intent to
    leave Samoa.

  3. In any prosecution for an offence against this Order the fact
    that the defendant has at any time within three years after leaving
    Samoa habitually made default in obeying an order of maintenance
    or in providing his wife or child with adequate maintenance shall be
    sufficient evidence, unless the contrary is proved, that the defendant
    left Samoa with intent so to make default.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE SAMOA TREASURY REGULATIONS, 1920.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of
April, 1920.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the
authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government
of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the
Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on
the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under
the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby order as follows.

REGULATIONS.

  1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Samoa Treasury Regulations, 1920.

  2. This Order shall come into force in the Territory of Western
    Samoa on the same day as the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.

  3. In these regulations,

"Public moneys" means moneys forming part of the public
revenues of Samoa, and includes all securities for such
moneys :

"Treasurer" means the Treasurer of Western Samoa :

"Accounting officer" means any person who is required to
render an account under these regulations, and includes
every person who is in any manner charged with the duty
of collecting, receiving, or expending, or who does actually
collect, receive, or expend, any public moneys :

"Auditor" means any person appointed by the Controller and
Auditor-General to audit the accounts of the Samoan
Treasury.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🌏 Samoa Maintenance and Affiliation Order, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Legislation, Order in Council, Maintenance, Affiliation, Samoa, High Court
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council

🌏 Samoa Treasury Regulations, 1920

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
19 April 1920
Regulations, Treasury, Public Moneys, Samoa
  • Liverpool, Governor-General