1Treaty of Peace Act 1919

TREATY OF PEACE.

No. 20 of 1919.

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

[Assented to 28th October, 1919.]

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:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Treaty of Peace Act 1919.

Regulations.

2. 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.

Contraventions of regulations.

3. 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 Five hundred pounds 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.