Immigration Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 151.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1912.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Immigration Act 1901-1912 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation, to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. MAHON.

 

Amendment of the Immigration Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 307.)

After Regulation 18 the following heading and Regulation are inserted:—

“Members of Crews not Producing Identification Cards.

18a.—(1) Any officer may prevent any member of the crew of a vessel, other than a public vessel of a Government arriving at any port in the Commonwealth, from Ports beyond the Commonwealth, from landing during the vessel’s stay at that port unless the identification card of that member has been produced to the officer on demand.

(2) In any case where any such member whose identification card has not been produced to the officer on demand lands at any Australian port the master of the vessel and the member of the crew shall each be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.”

 

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