TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919 

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.   Short title [see Note 1]    
1A.   Application of Act to Territories    
2.   Regulations    
3.   Contraventions of regulations    

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919

- LONG TITLE

An Act to carry into effect the Treaty of Peace with
Germany

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919
- SECT 1   Short title [see Note 1] 

 This Act may be cited as the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919.

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919
- SECT 1A   Application of Act to Territories 

 This Act shall apply to the Territories.

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919
- SECT 2   Regulations 

 The Governor-General may make such regulations and do such things as appear
to him to be necessary for carrying out and giving effect to the provisions of
Part X (Economic Clauses) of the said Treaty.

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919
- SECT 3   Contraventions of regulations 

 The regulations may provide for the punishment of offences against the
regulations, by the impositions of the following penalties:

        (a)  If the offence is prosecuted summarily--a fine not exceeding One thousand
dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months; or both;
        (b)  If the offence is prosecuted upon indictment--a fine of any amount or
imprisonment for not more than seven years, or both.

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919

- NOTES

Compilation Information

Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919
Act No. 20 of 1919 as amended
This compilation was prepared on 24 October 2000taking into account
amendments up to Act No. 216 of 1973
The text of any of those amendments not in force on that date is appended
in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra
  
  
  

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919

- NOTES

Preamble

Preamble
WHEREAS at Versailles, on the twenty-eighth day of June, nineteen hundred and
nineteen, a Treaty of Peace with Germany (including a protocol annexed thereto)
a copy of which has been laid before each House of the Parliament, was signed
by representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia on behalf of His Majesty
the King, and it is expedient that the Government of the Commonwealth should
have power to do all such things as are necessary and expedient for giving
effect to the said Treaty on the part of the Commonwealth:
    Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and
the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919

- NOTES

TREATY OF PEACE (GERMANY) ACT 1919Notes to the Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919

Note 1
The Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919 as shown in this compilation
comprises Act No. 20, 1919 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Acts

Act

Number
and year

Date
of Assent

Date
of commencement

Application,
saving or transitional provisions

Treaty
of Peace Act 1919

20,
1919

28
Oct 1919

28
Oct 1919

Treaty
of Peace (Germany) Act 1920

39,
1920

10
Nov 1920

28
Oct 1919 (see s. 2)

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Statute
Law Revision (Decimal Currency) Act 1966

93,
1966

29
Oct 1966

1
Dec 1966

--

Statute
Law Revision Act 1973

216,
1973

19
Dec 1973

31
Dec 1973

Ss.
9(1) and 10

Table
of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended      rep. = repealed      rs. =
repealed and substituted

Provision
affected

How
affected

S.
1A

ad.
No. 39, 1920

am.
No. 216, 1973

S.
3

am.
No. 93, 1966