PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1919, Page 3

PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED. New regulations for the protection of the property and tenancies of soldiers and discharged soldiers have been gazetted, taking the place of those made during 1916 and 1917. The important clause of the new regulations reads as follows: Without the previous consent in writing of the Attorney-General granted on the recommendation of a Stipendiary Magistrate it shall not be lawful for any person: (a) To issue any process of execution against the property of a soldier, or recently discharged soldier, or assisted discharged soldier, in pursuance of any judgment, decree- or order of any Court in its civil jurisdiction, whether obtained before or after the making of these regulations; or (b) To seize or sell the property of any soldier, recently discharged soldier, | or assisted discharged soldier by way of distress for rent; or

(c) To file a bankruptcy petition against any soldier, recently discharged soldier, or assisted discharged soldier; or (d) To exercise (otherwise than with the htfive of the Supreme Court under the Mortgages Extension Act, 1914) any power of sale conferred by any mortgage, bill of sale, or other security over the property of a soldier, recently discharged soldier, or assisted discharged soldier, whether that mortgage, bill of sale, or security was given before or after the making of these regulations, and whether the person whose property is subject thereto became a soldier, recently discharged soldier, or assisted discharged soldier before or after the date of the mortgage, bill of sale, or security. The following definitions make the meaning of the new rules clear:

"Soldier" means a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, who is in receipt of pay as such, or who is on leave without pay after his return to New Zealand ifrom military service beyond the seas. "Discharged soldier" means a person who has in any manner ceased to be a member of any such Expeditionary Force after military service as such beyond the seas.

"Recently discharged soldier" means a discharged soldier at any time within the six months immediately succeeding his return to New Zealand after military service beyond the seas "Assisted discharged soldier" means a discharged soldier who is for the time being indebted to the Crown in respect of any loan granted to him, with or without security, under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act, 1915, or the Repatriation Act, 1918.