STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 136.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SERVICE AND EXECUTION OF PROCESS ACT 1901-1918.

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 Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of July, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON E. GROOM,

for the Attorney-General.

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Service and Execution of Process Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Service and Execution of Process Regulations.

Application of Act to Territories of Papua and Norfolk Island.

2. The provisions of the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1918 shall apply to—

(a) the service and execution in the Territories of Papua and Norfolk Island 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 Papua and Norfolk Island, 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:

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 Papua or the Territory of Norfolk Island—Three months;”.

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