War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 258.

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-16, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of September, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of War Precautions Regulations as Amended to this Date.

The War Precautions Regulations are amended by inserting therein after regulation 28d the following regulation:—

Power to destroy seized postal articles.

“28e. Any—

(a) postal articles as defined by the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1916 which have been withheld from delivery; and

(b) newspapers, magazines, periodicals or other publications which have been seized

in pursuance of the Proclamation issued by the Governor-General on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1914, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-sixth day of September, 1914, or in pursuance of any regulation made under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, may, if in the opinion of the Deputy Chief Censor it is desirable so to do, be destroyed.”

   

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