20AMaintenance of certain dependants

20A Maintenance of certain dependants

Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations there may, if the Governor-General so directs, be paid out of the net proceeds of any property retained by the Commonwealth under Article 297 of the Treaty, such sums as the Public Trustee deems sufficient for the maintenance in the Commonwealth of the wife and children of the person to whom the property belonged immediately prior to the coming into force of the Treaty:

Provided that no sums shall be paid in pursuance of this regulation:

(a) after the expiration of three years from the commencement thereof; or

(b) in cases where the wife was not, prior to her marriage, a natural-born British subject.