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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 293.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916—

Regulation 11—Amendment.

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-second day of November, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916.

Amendment.

Regulation 11 of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations which reads as follows:—

Manufacture or sale of patriotic buttons forbidden without consent of State War Council.

“11. (1) Any person, firm or company, who or which, without the approval of a State War Council (proof whereof shall lie upon the person, firm or company), manufactures, sells or offers for sale, buttons, being or purporting to be in connexion with a scheme for raising money for a patriotic fund, or a fund in relation to the war, shall be guilty of an offence against the War Precautions Act 1914-1916.

(2) Any police constable or any person producing an authority signed by the Chairman of a State War Council may require any person, firm or company who or which is manufacturing, selling or offering for sale, any buttons being or purporting to be in connexion with a scheme for a patriotic fund or a fund in relation to the war to produce to him evidence that such manufacture, sale or offering for sale has the approval of a State War Council.

is amended to read—

Manufacture or sale of patriotic buttons &c. forbidden without consent of State War Council.

“11. (1) Any person, firm or company, who or which, without the approval of a State War Council (proof whereof shall lie upon the person, firm or company), manufactures, sells or offers for sale, buttons, badges, tokens, emblems, or devices of any kind whatever, being or purporting to be in connexion with a scheme for raising money for a patriotic fund, or a fund in relation to the war, shall be guilty of an offence against the War Precautions Act 1914-1916.

(2) Any police constable or any person producing an authority signed by the Chairman of a State War Council may require any person, firm or company who or which is manufacturing, selling or offering for sale, any buttons, badges, tokens, emblems, or devices of any kind whatever, being or purporting to be in connexion with a scheme for a patriotic fund or a fund in relation to the war to produce to him evidence that such manufacture, sale or offering for sale has the approval of a State War Council.

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