War Precautions (Mining) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 102.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

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 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this first day of May, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions (Mining) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 323.)

1. Regulation 2 of the War Precautions (Mining) Regulations is amended by adding, at the end of the definition of “Mining or Metallurgical Company”, the following words:—

“Provided that a company the principal business of which consists of mining for gold shall not be deemed to be a mining or metallurgical company unless the Attorney-General by notice published in the Gazette declares that it is to be deemed to be a mining and metallurgical company”.

2. Regulation 3 of the War Precautions (Mining) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (2) thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a) A sale or disposal to any person other than a natural-born British subject of any share or interest in a mining or metallurgical company—

(a) which purports to have been made before the fifteenth day of August, 1916; and

(b) which had not been registered in the books of the company prior to the fifteenth day of August, 1916,

shall not be deemed to have been made before the fifteenth day of August, 1916, unless the Chairman of the Stock Exchange of the Capital City of the State in which the company is incorporated, or in the case of a sale or disposal

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purporting to have been made outside the Commonwealth, the person thereto authorized in writing by the Attorney-General, certifies in writing that in his opinion the sale or disposal of the share or interest was in fact made before that date.”:

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (3) thereof, after the word “with” the words “or, in the case of the transfer of any share or interest the sale or disposal of which purports to have been made before the fifteenth day of August, 1916, a certificate under sub-regulation (2a) of this Regulation has been filed with the company,”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) Where the secretary or other proper officer of the company has, in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation, required a person to make a declaration in one of the forms set out in that sub-regulation, the secretary or other proper officer of the company may refuse to register the person as the proprietor of the share or interest in question until the declaration is lodged”.

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