STATUTORY RULES.
1906. No. 48.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACTS
1903–1904.
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with
the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the Defence Acts 1903–1904, to come into operation on the 1st day of
July, 1906.
Dated this twenty-second day of
June, One thousand nine hundred and six.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
T.
PLAYFORD.
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(Issued provisionally as
Statutory Rules No. 80, of 1905.)
Regulations Governing—
(a) The landing of foreign troops and
crews of warships;
(b) The use of search lights on board
foreign warships; and
(c) The surveying of shore-line by boats from foreign ships.
(a) Landing of Foreign Troops.
1. No parties of soldiers or sailors in the service of any foreign
power may be landed from any vessel without permission from His Excellency the
Governor-General, obtained by telegraph or otherwise, through the Consular
Officer of the country to which the troops belong. An exception is, however,
made in the case of individual officers and men while such permission is being
obtained.
2. Permission will in ordinary circumstances be granted for the
landing of unarmed men for purposes of recreation and for drill, or as picquets
to assist the local police, in the numbers, specified by His Excellency the
Governor-General.
3. During the docking of a foreign man-of-war or transport for
repairs, the crew, &c., thereof may be permitted, if unarmed, to land and
camp (or to be quartered) on shore in a locality approved by the Naval or
Military Commandant of the District.
4. No armed parties in the service of any foreign power will be
allowed to land on Commonwealth Territory, except in the ease of Naval or
Military Funerals, when, permission may be granted by the Naval or Military
Commandant for the landing of armed parties of sufficient strength to fire the
customary salutes.
(b)
Use of Search Lights on board Foreign Warships.
Foreign ships of war will not be
permitted to use their search lights when visiting any of the fortified Ports
of the Commonwealth without permission having first been obtained from the
local Port Authorities, who will not grant permission without reference to the
Senior Naval or Military Officer at the Station.
(c)
Surveying of Shore-line by Boats from Foreign Ships.
The surveying of shore-line by
boats belonging to foreign ships will not be permitted.
By Authority: J. Kemp,