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

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 25.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth ofAustralia, 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 thirtieth day of January, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON E. GROOM,

for the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions (Wool) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 322, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 41, 52, 71, 148, 231 and 303.)

Afterregulation 25a of the War Precautions (Wool) Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Power to ask questions

“25b. The Chairman of the Central Wool Committee shall, for the purpose of carrying out these Regulations, have power to authorize any member of the Committee or any other person to ask questions of any person who has, since the commencement of these Regulations, dealt in wool, and any person who refuses or fails to answer any such question or who makes a false answer to any such question, shall be guilty of an offence.”

 

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