War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAS PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.
War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 25c—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
Dated this eighteenth day of May, 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.
The following new Regulation is inserted after Regulation 25b:—
25c.—(1) No book published in Australia, and no newspaper, magazine, or periodical wherever published, shall be posted, transmitted, consigned, conveyed or exported from the Commonwealth to any person in any neutral or enemy country except by a publisher or newsagent who has obtained permission in writing from an officer of the censorship staff.
(2) Other printed matter shall not, without the permission in writing of an officer of the censorship staff, be posted, transmitted, consigned, conveyed or exported from the Commonwealth to any person in any neutral or enemy country.
(3) A competent naval or military authority, or any person authorized by him, may examine any printed matter posted, transmitted, consigned, conveyed or exported to any neutral or enemy country, or intended to be so posted, transmitted, consigned, conveyed or exported, and may forward the matter, or any part thereof, to an officer of the censorship staff.
(4) If any person wilfully acts in contravention of this Regulation, or if any person fails to comply with any condition subject to which a permit under this Regulation has been granted, he shall be guilty of an offence against the Act; and if such person is a company, every director and officer of the company shall also be guilty of an offence against the Act unless he proves that the contravention took place without his knowledge or consent.
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(5) For the purposes of this Regulation—
“Enemy country” includes any territory in the military occupation of the enemy, but does not include any territory in the military occupation of His Majesty or His Allies.
“Printed matter” includes photographs and other pictorial representations but does not include trade circulars and catalogues.
(6) This Regulation shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any enactment, order, proclamation or regulation, respecting the export of merchandise or trading with the enemy, and shall not prejudice or affect the powers of censoring postal corrspondence.
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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