SOME MISGIVINGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 197, 9 August 1940, Page 4

SOME MISGIVINGS

ANDI THE t>EßTOlfcSi ' 'iMEßdfejifdr'' RJ£GULATIONSi APPLICATION OF INURING , CLAUSE . •-•Some - - misgiyings were .expressed,,; ■•••. in WhaUatane at, the . first, intima-, tion of : the gazetting of the Mort-, gages- Extension. Emergency Regu Ti ., i; lations 1940 and. the Debtors Emer-. , gency Regulations# 1940. f reference! in the metropolitan r^e^-. .. paper? suggested that tl;ie regula- .. • tion? were f ar-svv.epping, and -, ed in consternation., in some ; :a . ness quarters., ;i; f,,-,. , 7 . -J.It was at ; first l thought that appli* v: cations for leave to proceed against ;"•"= debtors, and acts pf ; , as "orders, attachments, etc) , filed before the regulations were ~ gazetted,- /would be revolted automatically with the abolition of the Courts Emergency Powers Regula- , tions, 1 but the inuring clause (4) o£, ~ Regulation. 1 .dispenses with concern. ~ on that -point. ;><j,. f! ,, . , • ";Xhe{ clause reads:, h ; ' All applications, .orders, notices, and generally all acts of authority- ; . which originated under the regulations hereby revoked (The- Courts 1 Emergency Powers Regulations 1939) and are subsisting or in force at the commencement of these re-> ; - : gulations shall enure for the. purposes of these regulations as if tliey had originated under these regula- - tions, and accordingly shall) where necessary, be deemed to have SO' ' originated. '\' . . The Stipendiary Magistrate ' for this district, Mr E. L. Walton, gave a decision on all applications for leave to proceed, by default and on judgment summons, when the monthly sitting of the Magistrate's Court was held in Whakatane on Tuesday.