WAR LEGISLATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 5

WAR LEGISLATION

' SOME AMENDING CLAUSES. ■ Some important additions to the War Legislation Bill have been made by tho Legislative Council, which passed the Hill yesterday. A new clause provides* that a person pi.enemy origin shall be exempt from the prohibitions, liabilities, and) pen'aities imposed by the Bill if he has served with the King's forces abroad ■ during the present war and has received ,or earned an honourable discharge. I lor the purposes of tho clause relating to the restriction of rent any hnd Or huilding occupied as a shop or place of business by a soldier or discharged foldier or by a dependant of a soldier w discharged soldier, shall bo .learned to be a dwellinghouse under tho War Le-is-lation. Act, 1916, if the,standard rent does not exceed il.iG per annum. It is provided that the tenant may contract out of this provision. i The-provisions of the War Legislation Act, 191,, relating to contractors , relief are extended. ' - A ' C 2? ns 2, rolatin ? to State, forests gives the Commissioner power to cut and r eell timber and to buy land for the extension or protection of State forests , Crown land may he set apart as provisional State forests. The Government may make regulations limiting the export of timber and specifying conditions for the fale of timber on Crown or private lands. . v A new clause provides that the prohibition of certain contract.? by. enemy aliens affected by the War Location Bill. 191;, shall be extended beyond the germination of the present war The name of the Bill has noen altereel to War Emulations and Statute Amendment Bill."