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

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 56.

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REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1916.

War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916— Regulation 25—Addition.

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 second day of March, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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. (Supplementary) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 97, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 112, 122, 128, 129, 135, 167, 218, 219, 250, 252, 253, 255, 263, 271, 272, 273, 289, 293, 298, 300, 301, 303, 328, Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 12, 17, 37.)

After Regulation 24 of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—

Transmission of postal packets to prisoners of war in enemy countries.

“25. No person shall, except in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as are notified by the Minister for Defence by notice published in the Gazette, transmit from the Commonwealth, or post for the purposes of such transmission, any parcel or packet, which is addressed to, or the contents of which are intended for, a person who is interned as a prisoner of war in any country with which the King is now at war.”

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