Protection of Word "Anzac" Regulations (Amendment)

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STATUTORY RULES.

1959. No. 29.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT REPEAL ACT 1920-1955.*

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 Repeal Act 1920-1955.

Dated this thirtieth day of April, 1959.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. E. BARWICK

Attorney-General.

 

Amendment of the Protection of Word “Anzac” Regulations.†

The Protection of Word “Anzac” Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Prohibition of word “Anzac” as name of street, road or park.

“3.—(1.) A person shall not, without the approval of the Attorney-General, use, in naming a street, road or park, the word ‘Anzac’ or any word resembling the word ‘Anzac’ as the name or part of the name of the street, road or park.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation does not apply to or in relation to—

(a) the naming of a street, road or park in which, or in the immediate vicinity of which, there is situated a public memorial relating to the war which commenced on the fourth day of August, 1914, or the war which commenced on the third day of September, 1939; or

(b) the naming or re-naming of a street, road or park the name of which at the commencement of this regulation contained the word ‘Anzac’ or any word resembling the word ‘Anzac’.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th May, 1959.

† Statutory Rules 1921, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1921, No. 216.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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