Meteorological Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 21.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE METEOROLOGY ACT 1906.

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 Meteorology Act 1906, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day March of 1930.

(Sgd.) STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Amendment of the Meteorological Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 204, as amended to this date.)

After regulation 3 of the Meteorological Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Meteorological records

“3a.—(1.) Any duly certified copy of or extract from any kept in pursuance of the MeteorologyAct 1906 shall for records all purposes be admissible in evidence in all Courts to the same extent as the original records, of which it purports to be a copy or extract, would be admissible in evidence.

“(2.) A copy of or extract from any such records shall be deemed to be duly certified if it purports to be signed and certified as a true copy or extract by the Commonwealth Meteorologist or the Divisional Meteorologist in the State in which the records are kept.”

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.