War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 44.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1916.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 45b—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 twenty-eighth day of February, 1917.

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.

Falsely pretending to be a returned soldier or sailor.

The following now Regulation is inserted after Regulation 45a:—

“45b. (1) For the purposes of this Regulation “returned soldier or sailor” means a person who has served abroad during the present war as a member of any naval or military force raised in Australia or in any other part of the British Empire.

(2) Any person who falsely represents himself to be a returned soldier or sailor shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

(3) In any proceedings for an offence under this Regulation the averment of the prosecutor that the defendant is not a returned soldier or sailor shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.”

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