REGULATION UNDER THE SERVICE AND EXECUTION OF PROCESS ACT 1901-1922.
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 Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1922, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this twentieth day of December, 1922.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Attorney-General.
Amendment of Service and Execution of Process Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1920, No. 136, as amended to this date.)
After regulation 2 of the Service and Execution of Process Regulations the following regulation is added:––
Application of Act to Territory of New Guinea.
“3. (1) The provisions of the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1922 shall apply to—
(a) the service and execution in the Territory of New Guinea of the civil and criminal process of the Courts of any State or part of the Commonwealth and the execution in the Territory of New Guinea of the judgments of those Courts; and
(b) the service and execution in any State or part of the Commonwealth of the civil and criminal process of the Courts of the Territory of New Guinea and the execution in any State or part of the Commonwealth of the judgments of those Courts,
in like manner as if the Territory of New Guinea were part of the Commonwealth:
Provided that in that application of the Act section eight of the Act shall be read as if after paragraph (a) there were inserted the following paragraph:—
‘(ab) If the writ is issued or is to be served in the Territory of New Guinea—three months ;’.
“(2) In the application of the Act to the Territory of New Guinea the authority conferred by section twenty-seven of the Act upon Judges of the Supreme Court of any State to make rules prescribing fees shall, in relation to the service of the process of the Courts of that Territory and to the execution and enforcement by those Courts of the process and judgments of the Courts of the States or other Territories of the Commonwealth and the costs to be allowed upon enforcing any such judgment, be exercisable by the Chief Judge of the Central Court of the Territory”
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