SERVICE AND EXECUTION OF PROCESS.

No. 26 of 1924.

An Act to amend the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1922.

[Assented to 26th September, 1924.]

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.—(l.)   This Act may be cited as the Service and Execution of Process Act 1924.

(2.)  The Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1922 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 1901-1924.

Service of summons for offence or complaint in any part of the Commonwealth.

2.  Section fifteen of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.) thereof, after the word “father,” the words “or of his having disobeyed or failed to comply with an order made under the provisions of any law relating to deserted wives and children or the protection of infants,”.

Application of Act to Territories.

3.  Section twenty-eight of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.) thereof, after the word “for” (second occurring), the word “further”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) thereof the word “and” (last occurring); and

(c) by inserting after paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) thereof the following paragraph:—

“and (c) the service and execution in any Territory of the Commonwealth of the civil and criminal process of the Courts of any other Territory of the Commonwealth and the execution in that first mentioned Territory of the judgments of those Courts,”.