STATUTORY RULES.
1917. No. 200.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.
War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulation 42aa—Addition.
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 1914-1916 to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this 22nd day of August, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Defence.
War Precautions Regulations 1915.
Addition.
The War Precautions Regulations 1915 are amended by inserting the following new Regulation after Regulation 42a:—
Power of prohibited article of equipment.
“42aa. (1) For the purpose of this Regulation “prohibited article of equipment”, means any article which the Minister by notification published in the Gazette declares to be a prohibited article of equipment.
(2) The Minister may declare any article to be a prohibited article of equipment if in his opinion—
(a) use of the article by a member of the Forces would be detritrimental or dangerous; or
(b) any untrue or misleading representation is made as to the value of the article, &c., or the effect of its use upon a member of the Forces.
(3) Any person who manufactures, sells, offers or exposes for sale, barters, exchanges, trades in, gives away or disposes of a prohibited article of equipment, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
(4) Any manufacturer, merchant, trader, dealer or shopkeeper on whose behalf or at whose place of business any prohibited article of equipment is manufactured, sold, offered or exposed for sale, bartered, exchanged, traded in, given away or disposed of whether contrary to the instructions of such manufacturer, merchant, trader, dealer or shopkeeper or otherwise, shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
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