War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917 No. 255.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 28ab—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 third day of October, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

War Precautions Regulations 1917.

Addition.

The following new Regulation is inserted after Regulation 28aa:—

“28ab. (1) For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘prohibited publication’ means any printed matter which the Minister by notification published in the Gazette declares to be a prohibited publication; and includes any portion of a prohibited publication; and in the case of a periodical includes any issue or number of the periodical.

Possession, &c. of prohibited publications an offence.

(2) Any person who without lawful authority—

(a)has in his possession or on premises in his occupation or under his control any copy of a prohibited publication;

(b) posts, delivers or receives through the post or otherwise any copy of a prohibited publication; or

(c) carries any copy of a prohibited publication for delivery to another person otherwise than through the post,

shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(3) Any person who without lawful authority prints, publishes, or distributes copies of or extracts from a prohibited publication shall be deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been, prior to such printing, publication, or distribution, in possession of a prohibited publication in contravention of this Regulation.

(4) In any proceedings, for an offence under this Regulation the averment of the prosecutor that the printed matter in respect of which an offence is alleged to have been committed is or is portion of a publication declared by notice in the Gazette to be a prohibited publication shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.”

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

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