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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 26.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION 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 Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

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 War Precautions Regulations 1915.

(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 130.)

After Regulation forty of the War Precautions Regulations the following heading and Regulation are inserted:—

“Licences for Vessels Leaving the Commonwealth.

Vessels not to leave Commonwealth without licence.

“40a.—(1) No vessel to which this Regulation applies shall leave any part in the Commonwealth for any destination beyond the Commonwealth unless she has been licensed so to do by the Comptroller-General of Customs or by some person thereto authorized by him, and the master owners agents and charterers of any vessel which leaves any part in the Commonwealth in contravention of this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.

“(2) An application for a licence under this Regulation must be made in writing at least twenty-four hours before the proposed time of departure of the vessel, and must set forth—

(a) the name of the vessel;

(b) the proposed destination of the vessel;

(c) the proposed time of departure of the vessel;

(d) the principal cargo proposed to be carried in the vessel; and

(e) the proposed date of return of the vessel to Australia.

C.2744.—Price 3d.

“(3) Subject to sub-regulation (4), this Regulation applies to the following vessels:—

(a) Vessels owned in the Commonwealth or vessels of any nationality under time charter to any person firm or company resident or carrying on business in the Commonwealth; and

(b) British vessels now in any port in the Commonwealth or hereafter arriving in any such port, and proposing to leave the Commonwealth for any destination abroad with more than ten per centum of cargo space unfilled.

“(4) The provisions of this Regulation shall not apply to vessels engaged in regular trade between the Commonwealth and New Zealand, or between the Commonwealth and the Islands of the Pacific.

“(5) The Comptroller-General of Customs may, at his discretion, grant or refuse any licence applied for under this Regulation or grant it subject to such conditions restrictions and limitations as he thinks fit.

“(6) Any person making any false statement in an application for a licence under this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.”

 

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