PROTECTION OF DEBTORS
EMERGENCY REGULATIONS COURT POWER NEEDED RIT! UTS OF SOLDIERS i (Pnr Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Explaining the Courts Emergency Powers Regulations, 1939, which were published in the Gazette yesterday, the Attorney-General, the Hon. 11. G. R. Mason, said the regulations were for the protection of all debtors. Briefly, the regulations prevented any form of execution against a debtor unless leave of the court was first obtained, and the protection relatod to contracts entered into „ before the passing of the regulations, and in the cases of soldiers it extended to contracts entered into before they were called up. The regulations did not interfere with judgments for the recovery of damages, for toil orders under the Destitute Persons Act, or orders made in criminal proceedings or in proceedings for the recovery of a penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of an Act.
The regulations required that any person must apply for and receive the permission of the court before he could proceed under five headings set out in the regulations. A number of matters were also enumerated in the regulations to which the regulations did not apply,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 14
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