SOLDIERS AND DEBTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1919, Page 5

SOLDIERS AND DEBTS.

i . • ; AMENDING REGULATIONS. Wellington, June 23. Atfomey-Oeneral has issued a mUenieitt besets out the realonfwbytbe Government deemed it neonj&ry to issue the recent amended regulation® for the protection of soldte* against claims for»debt. Under Utfr original regulations it was necessary in All cam .that should ob* JiJa tha* permission of the Attonieybefore being allowed to proceed Igstfnst a soldier, but.it had been reprejenttd Ufthe Government that banks Hid- large trading concerns were in most awes required by their constitutions to idvaSoe only upon restricted security, u4>'to meet Such cases the amending: regttlatiOilßof June 2 had been gazetted ma)&ng 9 process to be pursued oy that slpr without the consent of the At-torney-General, where proceedings are to seeUM the balance of a trading account mmfit. The exemption is lbnited to bonks and approved trading companies, ii»d Approved merchants, approval being imtiwj to ordinary money, fenderrand -that class of dealer from havitfjmlimited power to harasß a, debtor. ijphe following classes, of soldiers and iftoharged «oldiers r are protected,by ihe . Mgotetions from a pocess without the sofltefat of .thA' Attorney-General, but bnljpfor defined periods? (1) A--, soldier, whtfift «fcQl a member of the E*j>editioniry Forte " until discharged and 12 month# afterwards; (2) a discharged solditfis protected for-12 months from the date of hiii 'discharge, but no logger. This protection applies in respect to debts incurred after-as well as before dis•bafrge; (3), an "assisted discharged" soldier/that is, a soldier indebted to the CroWn in respect of a loan granted him under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act or the Repatriation Act- This class is protected so long as his debt to the Crown remains unpaid.