War Precautions (Rabbit Skins) Regulations 1917 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 78.

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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 twentieth day of March, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of the War Precautions (Rabbit Skins) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 98, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 132 and 223.)

1. Regulations 2 to 13a of the War Precautions (Rabbit Skins) Regulations 1917 are repealed.

2. The following regulation is added after regulation 14 of the War Precautions (Rabbit Skins) Regulations:—

“15. It shall be an offence for any local manufacturer, without the consent in writing of the Prime Minister or an officer thereto authorized in writing by the Prime Minister to sell or dispose of, otherwise than in the ordinary course of manufacture, any rabbit skins supplied to him in pursuance of paragraph (a) of regulation 9 of Statutory Rules 1917, No. 98, or of any regulation superseding or amending that regulation.”

 

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