War Precautions (Sheepskins) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 78.

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REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation, under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of March, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of War Precautions (Sheepskins) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 321, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917. Nos. 42, 53, and 72.)

1. (1) Regulation 5 of the War Precautions (Sheepskins) Regulations is amended by adding, at the end thereof, the following proviso:—

“Provided that paragraphs (b) and (c) of this regulation shall not apply where the wool is, by consent of the Central Committee, by a continuous process manufactured, or in the course of manufacture, into wool tops.”

(2) This regulation shall be deemed to have commenced on the date of the commencement of the War Precautions (Sheepskins) Regulations 1916 (Statutory Rules 1916, No. 321, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 42 and 53).

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