War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1916.
War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulations 2, 42d, and 58a—Additions.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth
of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby
make the following Regulations under the
Dated this sixth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
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.
Regulation 2, after the definition of “officer of police”, insert:—“Person includes a body corporate as well as an individual.”
After regulation 42c insert the following new Regulation:—
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a ) dyes any article of military clothing which belongs to the Commonwealth of Australia.; or(
b ) is in possession of any article of clothing which has been dyed contrary to this Regulation—
shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
(2) In any proceedings for an offence against this Regulation the averment of the prosecutor that an article of clothing belongs to the Commonwealth of Australia shall be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary.
(3) Any person being a merchant, trader, dealer, or shopkeeper on whose behalf or at whose place of business any article of clothing is dyed contrary to this Regulation, whether contrary to the instructions of such person or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
After Regulation 58 insert the following new Regulation:—
58a. Every provision of these Regulations relating to offences punishable on indictment or summary conviction shall unless the contrary intention appears be deemed to apply to bodies corporate as well as to individuals.
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