STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 76.

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REGULATIONS 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 twentieth day of March, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of War Precautions (Land Transfer) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 169, 189, and 326, and Statutory Rules 1918, No. 44.)

The War Precautions (Land Transfer) Regulations are amended by adding after regulation 7 thereof the following regulation:—

Transactions on behalf of enemy subjects, &c.

“8 Any provision of these Regulations which prohibits, either absolutely or without consent, any transaction to which an enemy subject or a naturalized person of enemy origin or a person deemed to be a naturalized person of enemy origin is a party shall extend to prohibit, to the same extent, any transaction to which a person, acting for or on behalf of an enemy subject or a naturalized person of enemy origin or a person deemed to be a naturalized person of enemy origin, as the case may be, is a party.”

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