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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 98.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1915.

War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 15—Amendment Regulation 25b—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 Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914–15 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this eighteenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Amendment.

Paragraph 15 which reads as follows:—

Power to clear areas of inhabitants.

15. (1) The competent naval or military authority may by order require the whole or any part of the inhabitants of any area specified in the order to leave that area if the removal of such inhabitants from that area is necessary for naval or military reasons.

(2) If any person to whom the order relates fails to comply with the order, he shall be guilty of an offence against the Act, and the competent naval or military authority may cause such steps to be taken as may be necessary to enforce compliance therewith.

is cancelled and the following substituted—

Power to clear areas of inhabitants.

15. (1) If in the opinion of the competent naval or military authority the removal of the whole or any part of the inhabitants of any area is necessary for naval or military reasons, the competent naval or military authority may by order require the whole or any part of such inhabitants to leave that area.

(2) If any person to whom the order relates fails to comply with the order, he shall be guilty of an offence against the Act, and the competent naval or military authority may cause such steps to be taken as may be necessary to enforce compliance therewith.

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War Precautions Regulations 1915.

Addition.

The following paragraph is inserted after paragraph 25a:—

Accommodation addresses for receipt of letters, telegraph and other postal packers.

25b. Every person who carries on, or proposes to carry on, either alone or with some other business, the business of receiving for reward letters, telegrams, or any other postal packets for delivery, or forwarding to the person for whom they are intended, shall comply with the following provisions:—

(1) He shall at once inform the Censor for the District in which he carries on business that he is carrying on or proposes to carry on the business, giving his full name and the address or addresses where the business is, or will be, carried on.

(2) He shall at once inform the Censor if he changes his place of business.

(3) He shall keep a book in which he must enter—

(a) the full name and address of every person who asks that any letter, telegram, or any other postal packet may be delivered or forwarded, and all instructions given him by any such person, as in Form A.;

(b) full particulars regarding every letter, telegram, or other postal packet received for delivery or forwarding, as in Form B.

The particulars under heads 1–5 of Form B must be recorded immediately the letter is received, and the remaining particulars, under heads 6–8, when it is delivered or forwarded.

(4) He shall not deliver any letter, telegram, or any other postal packet to any person without first obtaining his receipt for it in the place provided in the book he keeps. (Column 8, of Form B).

(5) The book or books containing the particulars mentioned above and all letters, telegrams, and other postal packets, received for delivery or forwarding must be produced for inspection, if required, by any police constable or any person appointed by the competent naval or military authority, or any person employed in the Censorship staff.

Form “A.”

Particulars of every person asking that letters, &c., may be received for delivery or forwarding:—

Date of Application. 1. Full name and address of person asking that letters, &c., may be received. 2. Full name and address of the person to whom the letters, &c., are to be delivered or forwarded, and all other instructions received. 3.

 

Form “B.”

Particulars of each letter received for delivery or forwarding:—

Date of Receipt.	Letter Postcard Telegram or parcel.	Name of Addressee.	Where posted and date of postmark.	If registered office of registration and number..	Full name of person to whom delivered or forwarded.	Date of delivery or forwarding.	Signature of person receiving the letter, &c., if delivered.
1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.

 

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