Military Service Referendum Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No 262.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE MILITARY SERVICE REFERENDUM ACT 1916.

I, SIR JOHN MADDEN, Deputy of the Governor-General, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Military Service Referendum Act 1916 to come into operation as from the 18th day of September, 1916.

Dated this twentieth day of October, 1916.

JOHN MADDEN,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Minister of State for Home Affairs.

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Amendment of Military Service Referendum Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 260.)

Amendment of Regulation 3.

1. Regulation 3 of the Military Service Referendum Regulations 1916 is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2) thereof, after the word “declaration,” the words,” which shall be printed on an envelope,”.

Amendment of Regulation 5.

2. Regulation 5 of the Military Service Referendum Regulations 1916 is amended by omitting the figure “ (1) “ in paragraph (a) thereof, and inserting in its stead the figure “(2)”.

Amendment of Regulation 7.

3. Regulation 7 of the Military Service Referendum Regulations 1916 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(8) For the purpose of this regulation each tribunal shall have power to—

(a) summon witnesses;

(b) take evidence on oath; and

(c) require the production of documents.

“(9) Any person who on being summoned as a witness before a tribunal fails, without lawful excuse and after tender of reasonable expenses, to appear in obedience to the summons, shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: Ten pounds.

“(10) Any person who appears before a tribunal as a witness and who refuses without lawful excuse to be sworn or to make an affirmation, or to produce documents, or to answer questions which he is lawfully required to answer shall be guilty of an offence. Penalty: Ten pounds.”

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