SERVICE AND EXECUTION OF PROCESS.

No. 29 of 1918.

An Act to amend the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1912.

[Assented to 27th November, 1918.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)  This Act may be cited as the Service and Execution of Process Act 1918.

(2.)  The Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1912 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1918.

Amendment of s. 15 of the Principal Act.

2.     Section fifteen of the Principal Act is amended by inserting, after the word “support,” the words “or failed to make adequate provision for the payment of maternity expenses in connexion with the birth, or expenses in connexion with the future maintenance, of any infant of which he is the putative father,”.

Amendment of s. 18 of the Principal Act.

3.     Section eighteen of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word “committed” the words “,or has been convicted of an offence committed,”; and

(b) by inserting after the word “support” (first occurring) the words “or failed to make adequate provision for the payment of maternity expenses in connexion with the birth, or expenses in connexion with the future maintenance, of any infant of which he is the putative father”.

Amendment of s. 22 of the Principal Act.

4.     Section twenty-two of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting at the end of paragraph (a) the words “in their State, Federal, and Admiralty jurisdictions”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (b).

Amendment of s. 28 of the Principal Act.

5.     Section twenty-eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(1.)  The Governor-General may make regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act and in particular for applying the provisions of this Act with or without modifications to—

(a) the service and execution in the Territories of the Commonwealth of the civil and criminal process of the Courts of any State or part of the Commonwealth and the execution in those Territories 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 Territories of the Commonwealth, and the execution in any State or part of the Commonwealth of the judgments of those Courts,

in like manner as if those Territories were part of the Commonwealth.”