War Precautions (Rabbit Skins Requisitioning) Regulations 1918 (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 159.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions (Rabbit Skins Requisitioning) Regulations 1918.

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 nineteenth day of June, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

The War Precautions (Rabbit Skins Requisitioning) Regulations 1918.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the War Precautions (Rabbit Skins Requisitioning) Regulations 1918.

Power to appoint agents and requisition rabbit skins.

2. (1) The Minister may appoint Agents (in these Regulations referred to as “Authorized Agents”) to requisition rabbit skins for military purposes, and may require any owner or person in possession of rabbit skins to deliver them up to an Authorized Agent or his representative at such time and place as the Authorized Agent appoints.

(2) Any owner or person in possession of rabbit skins who refuses or fails to comply with any requirement of an Authorized Agent in pursuance of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) The compensation payable to an owner in respect of any rabbit skins requisitioned in pursuance of this regulation shall in default of an agreement be determined by the Minister upon such basis as he thinks fair.

Power of authorized agents.

3. (1) Every Authorized Agent appointed under these Regulations, or his duly accredited representative, shall have power to—

(a) ask questions and require the production of documents in relation to the purchase, sale, disposal or origin of any rabbit skins, or the actual or probable supply of rabbit skins; and

(b) enter at any reasonable hour in the day time upon any premises or place in which there are, or are believed by him to be any rabbit skins, and inspect any rabbit skins therein.

(2) Any person who refuses or fails to answer questions or produce documents asked for or required in pursuance of this regulation, or who resists, obstructs or in any way interferes with an Authorized Agent or his accredited representative in the exercise of any power conferred upon him by this regulation, shall be guilty of an offence.

 

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