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

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 129.

PROVISIONAL 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 for the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the WarPrecautions Act 1914-1916 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June, 1916.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916.

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

The War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by inserting at the end thereof the following regulation:—

No action to be taken against State authority.

“10. No person shall, without the consent of the Attorney-General, institute any action or other proceeding or take any further steps in any action or other proceeding, brought against the Government of any State of the Commonwealth, the Attorney-General of the State, or the Railway Commissioner or Commissioners, or any other authority of a State, in respect or in consequence of the refusal or failure of the State or any State authority to supply the person with trucks for the conveyance of wheat from any place.”

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