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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 135.

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REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, 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 fifth day of July, 1916.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the 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 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 97, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 112, 122, 128 and 129.)

The War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by inserting, after Regulation 4 thereof, the following Regulation:—

Power of proprietary clubs to suspend membership

“4a. Any club or association, and the committee of any club or association, the members of which have a proprietary interest in the property thereof, and the revenues of which are applied solely in or towards the promotion of the objects of the club or association, and are not applied by way of profit to the individual members of the club or association, may, notwithstanding anything in the constitution or rules of the club of association, suspend, until the termination of the war, the membership of any member who is an enemy subject or a person who has been a subject of a country with which the King is now at war; and no person whose membership has been so suspended shall be entitled to any relief in respect of the suspension.”

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