PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16516, 7 May 1919, Page 10

PROTECTING SOLDIERS.

NT-TW 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 matle during 1916 and 1917. Tlio important , clauso of the new regulations reads as follows: — "Without the previous consent in writing of the Attorney-General granted on the recommendation of <i Stipendiary Magistrate, it shall not be lawful for any person:— 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 tlio 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 toe leave of the Supreme Court under the Mortgages Extension Act, 1,914) any power of sale conferred by any mortgage, bill of sale, or other security over the property of a soldier, recently disg®d soldier, or assisted discharged loldier, whether that mortgage, bill of or security was given before or j 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 m ®| l ° l °g of the new rules clear:— Soldier" means a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, who is in receipt of military pay as such, or who is on leavo without pay after his return to New Zealand from military service beyond the seas. "Discharged soldier'' means a person who has in any manner ceased to bo 1 a member of any such _ Expeditionary r S® , ter 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 ii 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 ■ .-oldiers' Settlement Act, 1915. or the i Repatriation Act, 1918.