War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 66.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, 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 thirteenth day of March, 1918.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions Regulations 1915. Amendment—Regulation 17ea.

War Precautions Regulation 17ea (Statutory Rules 1918, No. 61) is repealed, and the following substituted therefor:—

Reservists of Allied powers who refuse to render service guilty of offence

17ea—(1) In this Regulation—

“Reservist” means a subject of any allied State or Sovereign, who, if he were within the territory of such State or Sovereign, would be liable to render service in connexion with the war.

(2) Any reservist—

(a) who by public notice or by notice addressed to him personally by a Consul or other representative of any allied State or Sovereign, has been called on to return to the territory of such State or Sovereign, or to submit himself for medical examination or to do any other act preliminary to his return to that territory for the purpose of rendering service in connexion with the war; and

(b) who fails to comply with the requirement of such notice

shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(3) Any person who advises or endeavours to persuade a reservist not to comply with any such notice shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(4) In any proceedings for an offence under this Regulation any document which purports to be signed by a Consul or other representative of any Allied State or Sovereign, and which contains a statement that a person is a reservist, shall be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence that he is a reservist.

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