STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 150.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1925.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Immigration Act 1901-1925 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, 1927.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR

Minister of State for Home and Territories.

Amendment of the Immigration Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 185, as amended to this date.)

After Regulation 4a of the Immigration Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—

Enforcement of maintenance guarantee.

“(4b) If by reason of infirmity of mind or body, insufficiency of means to support himself or any other cause, an immigrant to whom a landing permit has been issued under the last preceding regulation, or in respect of whom any guarantee for maintenance in Australia has been given, becomes, within three years from the date of his arrival in the Commonwealth, a charge upon State funds or upon any public or charitable institution, the cost of his maintenance may be recovered, in any Court of competent jurisdiction, from the person who guaranteed his maintenance.”

After Regulation 32 of the Immigration Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Service of summons on master.

“32a. Any summons directed to the master of any vessel upon an information for any offence against the Act or these Regulations shall be deemed to be duly served on the master if the summons is delivered to a person authorized by the master to accept service of process on his behalf.”

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

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