STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 109.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DECEASED SOLDIERS ESTATES ACT 1918-1919.

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 Deceased Soldiers’ Estates Act 1918-1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Deceased Soldiers’ Estates Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 67, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1919, No. 223.)

1. After regulation 1 of the Deceased Soldiers’ Estates Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

“1a. These Regulations shall have effect as from the commencement of section 13 of the Act.”

2. (1) Regulation 12 of the Deceased Soldiers’ Estates Regulations is amended by omitting the words “be paid to such person or persons as are approved by the Minister” and inserting in their stead the words “whether the deceased member left a will or not, be paid to such persons or classes of persons as, under all the circumstances, the Minister thinks equitable and desirable.”

(2) This regulation shall have effect as from the commencement of section 13 of the Act.

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