IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 10

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT

.. ' 9 RULES APPLIED TO SOLDIERS. War Regulations gazetted some weeks ago place certain restrictions on the arrest of soldiers for debt. A memoranflum in General. Orders draws attention to these regulations, and explainsjhat the effect of them is "That no soictier of the Expeditionary Force can be taken out of His Majesty's service by arrest without the consent of a "■military authority" (a) under the Destitute Persons Act, (b) under the* Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act. Soldiers are not exempted from arrest by the police for crime, but only from arrest under tho two statutes abovenamed, which substantially are for maintenance of dependants and for debt respectively.. It, must bo noted that tho exemption docs not go further than these two. cases, and that there is nothing to prevent summonses for debt being served upon soldiers, or any ordinary process of the Civil Courts being taken against them. For instance, a soldier owes a civilian -a suni of money: tho civilian can sue him for the sum of money, and can get Judgment against him, and lie can oxcrciso all his remedies under the judgment except to arrest the man's person under the Imprisonment for Debt Abolition Act." The "military authority" referred to in the War Regulations is sucli an officer as may bo appointed for that purpose by the Minister. Those actually appointed are tho G.0.C., tho C.G.S., and all O.C. district's. e —

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