Military Forces of the Commonwealth Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 125.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1912.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1912 should come into immediate operation and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated the eighth day of September, 1914.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Regulation forthe Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

After Regulation 626 of the Commonwealth Military Regulations (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 327) the following Regulation it inserted:—

Requisitioning under Section 67 of the Act.

627.—(1) In time of war the Governor-General may issue a general authority to the Minister of Defence authorizing him to issue in authority to such persons as the Minister thinks fit to requesting such number and kind as the Minister specifies 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 from the Minister, 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 compensations payable to an owner in respect of any articles 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 by the Minister, and be determined by the Minister, subject to an appeal to any Judge of the Supreme Court of a State who may finally determine the amount of compensation mid make such order as to costs as he thinks fit.

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