Australian Military Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 157.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.

Australian Military Regulations 1916—Regulation 1307— Amendment.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1915 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eleventh day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Australian Military Regulations 1916.

Amendment.

Australian Military Regulation 1307 is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

Requisitioning vehicles, &c.

“1307. (1) In time of war the Minister of Defence or any District Commandant may issue an authority to any person to requisition such number and kind as are specified in the authority of vehicles, horses, mules, bullocks, aerial machines, boats or vessels, or goods for naval or military purposes.

(2) Upon receipt by any person of such an authority, that person or any person thereto authorized in writing by him may inspect any articles or animals of the kind enumerated in the said authority, and may, in pursuance of the said authority, by writing under his hand, require any owner of any of such articles or animals to deliver them up to him, and, in the event of the owner failing so to do within the time limited in the requisition, may seize the said articles or animals.

(3) The compensation payable to an owner in respect of any articles (other than molybdenite, wolfram, or scheelite) or animals requisitioned in pursuance of this Regulation shall in default of agreement be assessed in the first instance by a Board of three persons appointed or approved by the Minister and be determined by the Minister upon such basis as he thinks fair.

(4) The compensation payable to an owner in respect of any molybdenite, wolfram, or scheelite requisitioned in pursuance of this Regulation shall, in default of agreement, be assessed by the Minister on the basis of the agreement made between His Majesty’s Government and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia for the acquisition of molybdenite, wolfram and scheelite.”

 

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