War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 217.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 47d—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 29th day of August, 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 1915.

Addition.

The War Precautions Regulations 1915 are amended by inserting the following new Regulation after Regulation 47c:—

Articles supplied or issued by Red Cross not to be sold.

“47d. (1) Any person who sells, and any merchant, trader, dealer, pawnbroker or shopkeeper who buys, any article supplied or issued by any Red Cross Society or Red Cross organization, knowing it to have been so supplied or issued, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(2) Any person who buys or sells any article bearing a brand or mark indicating that it has been supplied or issued by a Red Cross Society or Red Cross organization, shall be deemed, in any proceedings for a breach of this Regulation, to know that it has been so supplied or issued.

(3) Any merchant, trader, dealer, pawnbroker, or shopkeeper on whose behalf or at whose place of business any article as aforesaid is offered or exposed for sale or is sold, exchanged, traded in or disposed of contrary to this Regulation, whether contrary to the instructions of such merchant, trader, dealer, pawnbroker, or shopkeeper or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.”

 

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