SERVICE AND EXECUTION OF PROCESS.

No. 45 of 1931.

An Act to amend the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1928.

[Assented to 29th October, 1931.]

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 1931.

(2.)    The Service and Execution of Process Act 1901-1928 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 1901-1931.

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

2.  Section fifteen of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “Magistrate”, the words “or Justice of the Peace”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “or Magistrate” and inserting in their stead the words “Magistrate or Justice”.

Backing of warrants for execution in another State or part.

3.  Section eighteen of the Principal Act is amended by inserting, after paragraph (f) of sub-section (1.), the following paragraph:—

“;or (g) who has failed to appear and give evidence or to produce books and documents in any civil or criminal trial or proceeding when duly served with a subpœna or summons or bound by a recognisance so to do,”.