STATUTORY RULES.
1916. No. 88.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1915.
War Precautions Regulations 1915—Regulations 15a and 47a—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 certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914–1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this tenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.
A. L. STANLEY,
Deputy for the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE.
War Precautions Regulations 1915.
Amendments.
Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 15a which reads:—
(2) Any person who fails to comply with an order given to him under this paragraph may be arrested forthwith by the officer by whom such order is given, or by any person authorized by him, and removed from the vicinity of the place of internment, camp, fort, hospital, or post.
is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—
(2) If any person fails to comply with an order given to him under this paragraph he shall be guilty of an offence against the Act and may be arrested forthwith by the officer by whom such order is given, or by any person authorized by him, and removed from the vicinity of the place of internment, camp, fort, hospital, or post.
Paragraph 47a is amended by inserting after the word “distress” in the second line of the paragraph the words “or under the provisions of a hire-purchase agreement made prior to the 1st day of June, 1916.”
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