Australian Military Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 246

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REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*

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 1903-1941.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of September, 1943.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

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Amendment of the Australian Military Regulations. 

Documentary evidence.

Regulation 388 of the Australian Military Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:—

“(n)A certificate certifying that—

(i) any article described in, or otherwise identified by, the certificate constituted the whole or part of the contents of a package specified in the certificate examined by a civil or military censorship authority or officer of Customs on a date so specified; or

(ii) any photographic copy annexed to or otherwise identified by the certificate is a true photographic representation, made by or in pursuance of the direction of a civil or military censorship authority or officer of Customs, of any article which formed the whole or part of the contents of a package specified in the certificate examined by him on a date so specified or of the wrappings of that package,

shall, if purporting to be signed by that civil or military censorship authority or officer of Customs, be admissible as prima facie evidence of the matters so certified without proof of the signature of that person or of his official capacity.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1927, No. 149, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 23, 28 and 126; 1929, No. 123; 1930, Nos. 26, 67 and 92; 1931, No. 13: 1932, Nos. 80, 87 and 125; 1933, Nos. 49 and 77; 1934, Nos. 26 and 80; 1935, Nos. 99 and 109; 1936, Nos. 21, 44 and 100; 1937, No. 45; 1938, Nos. 75, 90 and 93; 1939, Nos. 31, 51, 58, 115, 123, 134, 160 and 173; 1940, Nos. 2, 16, 29, 59, 150, 183, 184, 185, 186, 199, 237, 252, 272 and 273; 1941, Nos. 3, 4, 14, 43, 135, 153, 155, 205, 245, 246, 260 and 311; 1942, Nos. 35, 59, 60, 85, 114, 166, 179, 211, 231, 289, 333, 334, 350, 417, 477, 506, 508, 521, 522, 555 and 556; and 1943, Nos. 17, 72, 126, 157, 174 and

 

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

4546.—Price 3d. 25/22.7.1943.