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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 24.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 63a—Amendment.

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 first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Amendment.

Paragraph 63a of the War Precautions Regulations 1915, which reads as follows :—

Restrictions as to aliens may be applied to natural-born subjects of enemy descent.

“63a. (1) The competent naval or military authority, or a senior officer of police, may order that all or any of the restrictions imposed on aliens or on alien enemies by any Order made under the Act shall apply to any natural-born subject whose father or whose grandfather was a subject of a Sovereign or State who or which is at war with His Majesty.

(2) Notice in writing of the making of the order shall be given to any person in respect of whom an order under this paragraph is made.

(3) For the purpose of this Regulation any person who was a subject of a Sovereign or State whose territory now forms part of an enemy State shall be deemed to have been a subject of a Sovereign or State who or which is at war with His Majesty,”

is cancelled, and the following substituted :—

Restrictions as to aliens may be applied to natural-born subjects of enemy descent.

“63 a. (1) The competent naval or military authority, or a senior officer of police, may order that all or any of the restrictions imposed on aliens or on alien enemies by any Order made under the Act shall apply to any natural-born subject whose father or whose father’s father was a subject of a Sovereign or State who or which is at war with His Majesty.

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(2) Notice in writing of the making of the order shall be given to any person in respect of whom an order under this paragraph is made.

(3) For the purpose of this Regulation any person who was a subject of a Sovereign or State whose territory now forms part of an enemy State shall be deemed to have been a subject of a Sovereign or State who or which is at war with His Majesty.”

 

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