STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 308.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH 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 Regulation, under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 290, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 304 and 306.)

Regulation 42 of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917 is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of the proviso to sub-regulation (1) thereof the words “and in that case the magistrate may find specially that the statement is a false statement of fact of a kind likely to affect the judgment of electors in relation to their votes”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) thereof the words “If any person has been convicted under this regulation of making any false statement” and inserting in their stead the words “If—

(a) any person has been convicted under this regulation of making any false statement; or

(b) a magistrate finds that any statement is a false statement of fact of a kind likely to affect the judgment of electors in relation to their votes,”.

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