STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 146.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

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 second day of July, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN FORREST,

for Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Wool) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 322, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 41, 52, and 71.)

The War Precautions (Wool) Regulations are amended by inserting, after regulation 13 thereof, the following regulation:—

Prime Minister may require returns to be furnished.

“13a.—(1.) The Prime Minister may, upon the recommendation of the Central Committee, by notice in the Gazette, require any person, firm, or company, holding, or having under his or its control, stocks of wool, to furnish to the Central Committee, such returns, within such times, as are specified by him.

“(2.) Any person, firm, or company, who or which refuses or fails to furnish to the Central Committee, within such time as is specified by the Prime Minister, any return which he or it is required, in pursuance of this regulation, to furnish, shall be guilty of an offence.”

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