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

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 253.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.

War Precautions Regulations 1915.—Regulation 56c.—Addition.

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 fifteenth 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.

Addition.

After Regulation 56b, insert the following new Regulation:—

Interned persons subject to same rule of discipline as prisoners of war.

“56c. All persons detained in military custody under a warrant of the Minister issued under the authority of these Regulations shall be deemed to be subject to the Royal Warrant with respect to the maintenance of discipline among prisoners of war dated the third day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and to any other Royal Warrant or Prerogative Order issued in addition to or in substitution therefor, and to all Regulations and Rules attached to or made under the authority of any such Warrant or Order, in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were prisoners of war.”

 

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