STATUTORY RULES.
1916. No. 102.
PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated this eighteenth day of May, 1916.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
FRANK G. TUDOR,
for the Minister of State for Defence,
Amendment of War Precautions Regulations 1915
(Statutory Rules 1915, No. 130).
The War Precautions Regulations 1915 are amended by inserting therein, after Regulation 40, the following Regulation:—
“Endangering vessels.
40a. Any person who, by any act or default, endangers the safety of any vessel shall by guilty of an offence.”
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