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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No.27.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.

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 1914-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this eighth day of March, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions Regulations 1915.

(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 130 as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 11 and No. 13.)

1. Regulation 49da of the War Precautions Regulations is amended by omitting from the definition of “Public Trustee” the words “a person nominated by the Governor-General as a public trustee”, and inserting in their stead the words “the Comptroller-General of Customs.”

2. After Regulation 49da of the War Precautions Regulations, the following Regulation is inserted:—

Delegation by public trustee.

“49daa.—(1) The public trustee may in relation to any particular matters or class of matters or to any particular State, part of the Commonwealth, or part of the British Dominions, by writing under his hand delegate all or any of his powers and functions under the War Precautions Regulations (except this power of delegation) so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised by the delegate with respect to the matters or class of matters or the State, part of the Commonwealth, or part of the British Dominions, specified in the instrument of delegation.

“(2) Every delegation under this section shall be revocable at will, and no delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the public trustee.”

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3. After Regulation 49dh of the War Precautions Regulations, the following Regulation is inserted:—

Companies to supply lists of shareholders.

“49di.—(1) Within one month after the date of the making of this Regulation or within such further time as the Attorney-General, upon application made to him in writing within such period of one month, allows, every company incorporated in Australia shall forward to the Attorney-General a list, verified by Statutory Declaration of the Managing Director, Manager, Secretary, or other proper officer of the company, setting forth the names and addresses of all persons, being shareholders in that company on the twenty-ninth day of January, 1916, who are—

(a) enemy subjects, or

(b) naturalized persons of enemy origin,

and the number of shares held by each such person.

“(2) Any company incorporated in Australia may require any or all of its shareholders to file with the company a statutory declaration or other evidence acceptable to the Company setting out his or their nationality, (and, in the case of a naturalized person of enemy origin, his nationality prior to such naturalization) and any shareholder refusing or failing to do so within a reasonable time after being so required shall be guilty of an offence.”

 

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