War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 173.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

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-sixth day of June, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 3, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 169.)

1. The War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations are amended by adding, after regulation 5, the following regulation:—

Cutting up kerosene &c. tins.

“6.—(1.) No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Minister or of a person duly authorized in that behalf by the Minister, cut up or otherwise destroy, or pierce the side or bottom of, any tin for containing kerosene, petrol, benzine, or other petroleum.

“(2.) Every person who has in his possession any empty tin of the kind specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall, on demand by any person duly authorized in that behalf by the Minister, and on payment of the price for the time being fixed under the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations 1916 as the price of any such tins, deliver up to any such authorized person any such empty tin which is in his possession.”

   

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