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5. In the event of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand being prepared to enter into sucli an arrangement with this country, it would assist towards formulating the procedure for giving effect to the arrangement if they would indicate — (i) To what Department of State or other authority in New Zealand any sums to be transmitted from this country should be sent, and to whom the cheques should be made payable ; (ii) Whether there is any objection to that Department or authority receiving cheques and awards sent to it by the transmitting Court in this country direct; (iii) Whether cheques and awards to be transmitted to this country would be sent here direct by the transmitting Court, or through a Department of State or other authority in New Zealand ; and (iv) Whether there is any objection to the transmitting Court being empowered to order sums to be administered by the receiving Court for the benefit of the persons named in the award and " in accordance with the directions (if any) " of the transmitting Court. I have, &c. (For the Secretary of State), LOVAT. Governor-General His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.8., D.5.0., M.V.0., &c.

Enclosure. Workmen's Compensation (Transfer of Funds) Act, 1927. Chapter 15. An Act to make such Amendments of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, as are necessary to give effect to a certain Resolution adopted by an Imperial Conference held in London in the Year Nineteen hundred and twenty-six. \29th July, 1927.] Whereas at an Imperial Conference held in London in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six a resolution was adopted recommending that arrangements should be made between the different parts of the Empire whereby sums awarded under the law relating to workmen's compensation in one part of the Empire to beneficiaries resident or becoming resident in another part of the Empire may, at the request of the authority by which the award is made, be transferred to and administered by a competent authority in that part of the Empire in which such beneficiaries reside, and inviting the several Governments of the Empire to take such steps by way of legislation or otherwise as each may consider necessary and appropriate for the purpose of promoting such arrangements : Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — Amendment of 15 & 16 Geo. V, c. 84, as to powers of making rules of Court. 1. For the purpose of giving effect to the said resolution, the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, shall be amended as follows : — Rules of Court under the said Act may provide, in the event of any such arrangement as is mentioned in the said resolution being made between Great Britain and any other part of His Majesty's dominions — (a) For the transfer, in such manner as may be provided by the arrangement, to the part of His Majesty's dominions with which the arrangement is made of any money paid into Court under the said Act and rules made thereunder, as applicable for the benefit of any person resident in or about to reside in the part of His Majesty's dominions with which the arrangement has been made : (b) For the receipt and administration by a County Court of any money which under any such arrangement has been transmitted from the part of His Majesty's dominions with which the arrangement has been made as money applicable for the benefit of any person resident or about to reside in Great Britain. Short Title and construction. 2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation (Transfer of Funds) Act, 1927, and shall be construed as one with the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925. (2) For the purposes of this Act, " His Majesty's dominions" includes territories under His Majesty's protection, and such, if any, of the territories in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty as His Majesty may by Order in Council direct shall be treated as if they were included in His Majesty's dominions for the purposes of this Act.