War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 148.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions Regulations 1916—Regulation 28d—Amendment.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this nineteenth day of July, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

War Precaution Regulation 1916.

Amendment.

Regulation 28d is amended to read as follows:—

Submission of cinematograph film before exhibition.

28d. (1) The Chief of the General Staff or the Deputy Chief Censor or any person whom the Chief of the General Staff or the Deputy Chief Censor may authorize to exercise the power conferred by sub-regulation 1 of this Regulation may by order in writing require the owner, lessee, or person apparently in charge of any cinematograph film to submit before publication to any person named in the order, by showing the same on a proper screen, any film which relates or refers to the present war or to any subject connected therewith or arising therefrom or which depicts anything in the nature of a cartoon or otherwise that might be considered offensive to the subjects of any allied or neutral country or which relates or refers to any of the subjects mentioned in Regulation 19.

(2) An order may be given under this Regulation in respect of a particular subject or of all the subjects referred to in sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with an order given under this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(4) The Deputy Chief Censor or any competent naval or military authority or any person authorized by any of them, or any police constable or officer of Customs, may enter any premises suspected to contain any film within sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, and may seize and detain any film the exhibition of which would constitute an offence under any of these Regulations or would be offensive to the subjects of any allied or neutral power.

 

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