STATUTORY
RULES.
1921. No. 140.
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REGULATIONS
UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT REPEAL ACT 1920.
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 War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920,
to come into operation forthwith.
Dated
this twenty-second day of July, 1921.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
JOSEPH COOK,
Acting
Prime Minister.
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Publication
of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921.
Short title.
1. These Regulations may he cited as the Publication of Newspapers in
Foreign Languages Regulations 1921.
Publication of newspapers in foreign
languages.
2. Any person who, without the consent in writing of the Prime
Minister or of some person thereto authorized by the Prime Minister, publishes,
wholly or mainly in a, foreign language, any newspaper or periodical shall be
guilty of an offence.
Penalty:
One hundred pounds or imprisonment for six months or both.
Conditions of consent.
3. The consent of the Prime Minister or a person thereto authorized by
the Prime Minister to publish a newspaper or periodical in a foreign language
may be subject to such conditions as the Prime Minister determines.
Translation of matter in foreign language
may be required.
4. Without limiting the effect of the last preceding regulation the
consent to the publication of a newspaper or periodical in a foreign language
may, at the discretion of the Prime Minister or a person thereto authorized by
him, be subject to the condition that there be published, in a column parallel
to that containing the matter published in the foreign language, a translation
in the English language of that matter.
Seizure of newspapers published in
contravention of Regulations.
5. Where the Prime Minister is satisfied that any newspaper or
periodical has been, or is about to be, published in contravention of these
Regulations, he may authorize such persons as he thinks fit to enter, if need
be, by force, any premises, and to seize any copies of the newspaper or
periodical found thereon, and also any type or other plant used, or capable of
being used, for the printing or production of the newspaper, and to deal with
anyarticles so seized in such manner
as the Prime Minister directs.
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Printed and Published
for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert
J. Mullett, Government Printer for
the State of Victoria.