STATUTORY RULES.
1919. No. 152.
REGULATION UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1912.
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 Immigration Act 1901-1912, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this nineteenth day of June, 1919.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
P. McM. GLYNN,
Minister of State for Home and Territories.
Amendment of Immigration Regulations 1913.
(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 307.)
After regulation 4a of the Immigration Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Authorized officer may search building for exempted persons.
“4b. Any officer authorized in that behalf by the Minister may, at any reasonable hour in the day time, enter and search any building, premises, or place in which he has reasonable ground for believing that any person, who would in the opinion of the officer be a. prohibited immigrant but for the exception contained in paragraph (h) or paragraph (k) of section three of the Act, is engaged in the performance of work or duties of a kind different from those which he was expressly permitted to enter the Commonwealth to perform.”
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