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

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 56.

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REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR JOHN MADDEN, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, 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-seventh day of February, 1918.

JOHN MADDEN,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendmentof War Precautions(Supplementary) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 97, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 112, 122, 128, 129, 135, 167, 218, 219, 250, 253, 254, 255, 263, 271, 272, 289, 293, 298, 300, 301, 303, 328, and Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 12, 17, 37, 56, 65, 73, 94, 182, 196, 211, 222, 243, 254, 281 and 282.)

After regulation 36 of the War Precautions(Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Exemption of certain persons from serving as jurors.

“37. The following persons shall be exempt from serving as jurors, whether summoned so to serve under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State:—

Members of the Central Wool Committee;

Members of the Wool Committees of the various States; and

Appraisers appointed under the War Precautions(Wool) Regulations and the War Precautions(Sheepskins) Regulations.”

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