RECOVERY OF FINES
REGULATIONS AMENDED? (P.A.) WANGANUI, March 18. An amendment to the strikes and lock-out emergency regulations having an important bearing on the recovery of fines under the regulations was passed by the Government on Friday, according to authoritative information received in Wanganui.
The effect of this amendment, No. 5, is that any fine or costs for an offence against the regulations before or after the date of the amendment may not be enforced under the Summary Penalties Act, 1939, but constitute a judgment under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Under the Summary Penalties Act a fine became a debt to the Crown and certain processes for recovery were available, the final one being imprisonment.
Under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act fines become penalties owing m the department instigating the prosecution and are recoverable only by that department by process o'f attaching a debtor’s weekly pay, if any.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22589, 18 March 1948, Page 6
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151RECOVERY OF FINES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22589, 18 March 1948, Page 6
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