THE WAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23258, 20 July 1945, Page 4

THE WAR

Duration. And Termination Official Interpretation (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 19. An official interpretation of tiie expression “duration and termination of war” is given in a clause in the Finance Bill introduced and read a first time .in tiie House of Representatives to-day. The clause states that wherever in any Act or regulations passed or made since September 3. 1939, reference is made to the war, the present war, the war with Germany, and any other State or States, the duration or termination thereof or any equivalent expression it shall be interpre.ed by the following rules:— (a) War is the war with Germany that commenced on September 3, 19'39, and includes the war with Japan. (bi War shall be deemed to be existent until a date to be named as the date of the termination of the war in a proclamation by the Governor-General published in the Gazette. (c) The date to be named in that proclamation as the date of tiie termination of the war shall be the date of such termination for the purposes of every such enactment, and war shall for such purposes be deemed to continue and to be existent, until that date. Judicial cognisance by courts required by any enactment of the existence of the termination of a state of war shall be governed by the clause. Section 24 of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, is to be read subject to the provisions in the clause.