War Precautions (Coal) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1919. No. 183.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Deputy of the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, herein make the following Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixteenth day of July, 1919.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 240 and 252, and by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 103, 119, 141, 147, and 182.)

After regulation 8a of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Restrictions on tram and train services.

“8b.—(1) The Minister or a Coal Board may by notice published in the Gazette impose restrictions subject to such conditions and limitations as the Minister or the Board thinks fit, on the running of electric, steam or cable trams or trains other than trams or trains the property of a State.

(2) The restrictions may include restrictions as to the number of trams or trains which may be run, or the times within or during which trams or trains may be run, and may apply to the whole of the Commonwealth or to the part of the Commonwealth specified in the notice.

(3) Any person firm or company who or which propels any tram or train in contravention of any notice published under this regulation, shall be guilty of an offence.”

     

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