STATUTORY RULES.
1932. No. 127.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT REPEAL ACT 1920-1928.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act Repeal Act 1920-1928, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this ninth day of November, 1932.
ISAAC A. ISAACS
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. A. LYONS
Prime Minister.
Amendment of Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921.
(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 140.)
1. Regulation 2 of the Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Publication of newspapers in foreign languages.
“2.—(I.) Any person who, without the consent in writing of the Prime Minister or of some person thereto authorized by the Prime Minister, publishes in a foreign language any newspaper or periodical, or any portion thereof, shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: One hundred pounds or imprisonment for six months or both.
(2.) The provisions of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall not apply to the publication in a foreign language of any portion of a newspaper or periodical where the portion does not exceed two hundred words.”.
Conditions of consent.
2. Regulation 3 of the Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921 is amended—
(a) by inserting, after the word “periodical”, the words “, or any portion thereof,”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the words “, and may be withdrawn at any time by notice served personally on the publisher or by registered letter addressed to him at his last known address, or by notice published in the Gazette”
3547.—Price 3d.
Translation of matter may be required.
3. Regulation 4 of the Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921 is amended by inserting, after the word “periodical”, the words “, or any portion thereof,”.
4. After regulation 4 of the Publication of Newspapers in Foreign Languages Regulations 1921 the following regulation is inserted:—
Publisher to supply copy of newspaper if required.
“4a. The publisher of any newspaper or periodical published in a foreign language shall, whenever so required by notice in writing signed by or on behalf of the Secretary, Prime Minister’s Department, forward or deliver to him or to a person specified in the notice copies of all issues of the newspaper or periodical published during a period stated in the notice, or a copy of any issue specified in the notice.”
By Authority L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.