War Precautions Regulations 1915 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 117.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

(War Precautions Regulations 1916—Regulations 2 and 50b—Additions.)

I,THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated the fourteenth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Additions.

Regulation 2, add—

“Police constable” includes any member of the police force.

The following new Regulation is inserted after Regulation 50a:—

Powers of search of persons.

50b. Any person authorized for the purpose by the competent naval or military authority, or any police constable, or officer of Customs, may search any male person and may require any female person to submit to search by a female searcher, if the behaviour of such person is of such a nature as to give reasonable grounds for suspecting that such person has acted, or is acting, or is about to act, in a manner prejudicial to the public safety or the defence of the Commonwealth, and may seize any article, book, letter, or other document, the possession of which gives grounds for such a suspicion.

 

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