BILLETING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1942, Page 4

BILLETING

OFFICERS OF FORCES REGULATIONS ISSUED. NOTICE TO HOUSE OCCUPIERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Commissioned officers of the New Zealand armed forces art; authorised by regulations gazetted last evening to serve billeting notices requiring the occupier of any premises to provide lodging or food or both for members of the forces. The price paid for such accommodation is to be fixed by agreement between the occupier and the officer serving the notice, but in default of agreement, it will be fixed by arbitration under the Arbitration Act. 190... It is not to exceed, however. an amount calculated at a rate of Is 3d for each day's lodging, and Is 3d for each meal supplied. These rates can be amended from time to time, cither generally or for any particular c,ase or class of cases. An owner or .occupier of premises who suffers any loss or damage as a result of billeting will be entitled to receive such compensation as may be agreed upon, or, in default of agreement, as may be fixed by arbitration. Cases submitted to arbitration will be before one arbitrator if the parties can agree on one, but if not. there will be two arbitrators, one 'of whom will be appointed by the Minister of Defence and the other by the other party to the arbitration. Every person commits an offence against the regulations, which arc known as the Billeting Emergency Regulations, who without lawful excuse fails to comply in any respect with the requirements of a billeting notice; who with intent to deceive makes any false or misleading statement or any material omission; and who resists, obstructs, or deceives any person exercising any power oi’ function under the regulations. Penalties to which offenders will be liable on summary conviction arc in the case of an individual, imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding £5O. and if the offence is a continuing one. to a further fine not exceeding £5 for every day the offence continues: and in the ease of a body corporate, a fine not exceeding £2OO, and for a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding £2O for every day the offence continues.