STATUTORY RULES.
1917. No. 240.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.
War Precautions (Coal) Regulations (Statutory Rules, 1917, No. 195).–amendments;
I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this nineteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
A. L. STANLEY,
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOSEPH COOK,
for Minister of State for Defence.
War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195.)
Amendments.
Regulation 4 of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1), the words “and shall, at such times, or within or in respect of such periods, as are notified by the Minister from time to time by notice published in the Gazette, submit to the said Officers returns similarly verified setting forth similar particulars regarding the coal or coke possessed by him or it.”
After Regulation 8 of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Power to limit use of electric light or gas.
“8a. (1) The Minister or a Coal Board may by notice published in the Gazette prohibit subject to such conditions and limitations as the Minister or the Board thinks fit the use or consumption of electric light or gas in any part of the Commonwealth specified in the notice by the Minister or the Board.
“(2) Any person firm company or authority who or which uses electric light or gas in contravention of any prohibition of the Minister or a Coal Board in pursuance of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.”
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