Amendment of the Careless Use of Fire Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

1942. No. 3.

Regulation under the Careless Use of Fire Ordinance

1936-1942.*

T J O S E P H S I L V E R COL-LINGS, Minister of State for the Interior, -*-, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Careless Vse of Fire Ordinance 1936-1942, hereby make the following Regulation.

Dated this sixteenth day of February, 1942.

J . S. C O L L I N G S

Minister of State for the Interior.

A M E N D M E N T O F T H E C A R E L E S S USE O F F I R E

R E G U L A T I O N S .

After regulation 4 of the Careless Use of Fi re Regulations, the following regulation is added:—

commencing on the first day of November in any year and ending engines.''00 " 5 . — (1.) Any person who uses or controls, during the period internal

on the thirty-first day of March in the following year, any internal combustion engine, used in or in connexion with agricultural, dairying or pastoral pursuits, or for supplying motive power for machinery or for haulage purposes, which is not fitted with an effective spark arrestor, shall be guilty of an offence.

Pena l ty : Not less than Two pounds and not more than Twenty

pounds.

" (2.) Nothing in the last preceding sub-regulation shall apply to the internal combustion engine of any motor vehicle (other than a tractor) used solely in the conveyance of persons or goods.".

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on lOtli February, 1942.

By Authority: L. F. JOHXSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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