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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 260.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.

War Precautions Regulations 1915.—Regulations 2 and 63.—Amendments.

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 twenty-second day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

 

WAR PRECAUTIONS REGULATIONS 1915.

Amendments.

That portion of Regulation 2 which reads as follows:—

“Competent naval or military authority” means any commissioned officer of His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, or of the Commonwealth Naval or Military Forces, not below the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy or Field Officer in the Army, appointed by the Naval Board or the Military Board under Regulation 63 of these Regulations, or by the Admiralty or Army Council, as the case may be, to perform in any place the duties of such an authority, and includes any person to whom the powers of the competent naval or military authority or delegated in accordance with that Regulation.”

is cancelled, and the following substituted:—

“Competent naval or military authority” means any commissioned officer of His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, or of the Commonwealth Naval or Military Forces, not below the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy or Captain in the Army, appointed by the Naval Board or the Military Board under Regulation 63 of those Regulations, or by the Admiralty or Army Council, as the case may be, to perform in any place the duties of such an authority, and includes any person to whom the powers of the competent naval or military authority are delegated in accordance with that Regulation.

C.18196.—Price 3d.

 

Regulation 63 which reads as follows:—

Appointment of competent authority.

63. The Naval Board or the Military Board may appoint any commissioned officer of His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, not below the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy or Field Officer in the Army, to be a competent naval or military authority, and may authorize any competent naval or military authority thus appointed to delegate, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, all or any of his powers under these Regulations to any officer qualified to be appointed a competent naval or military authority.

is cancelled, and the following substituted:—

Appointment of competent authority.

63. The Naval Board or the Military Board may appoint any commissioned officer of His Majesty’s Naval or Military Forces, not below the rank of Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy or Captain in the Army, to be a competent naval or military authority, and may authorize any competent naval or military authority thus appointed to delegate, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, all or any of his powers under these Regulations to any officer qualified to be appointed a competent naval or military authority.