War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 60.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions Regulations 1915.—Regulation 44a.—Addition.

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 sixth 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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War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Addition.

The following new regulation is inserted after regulation 44:—

Supplying short quantities or short weight of goods for Forces.

“44a. (1) Any contractor or other person, and any employee of a contractor or other person, who supplies to the Commonwealth, or any person employed by the Commonwealth, for use by His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, any goods less in quantity or weight specified in the delivery note or other document accompanying such goods, or, if there be no such document, less in quantity or weight than the quantity or weight specified in the contract or order under which the goods are supplied, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(2) Any merchant, trader, dealer or shopkeeper on whose behalf or from whose place of business any goods are supplied contrary to this regulation, whether contrary in the instructions of such merchant, trader, dealer or shopkeeper, or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.”

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