STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 172.

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 twenty-sixth day of June, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Mining) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 323, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 102, and by Statutory Rules 1918, No. 39.)

Regulation 3 of the War Precautions (Mining) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (3) thereof, after the word “transfer” (wherever occurring) the words “or allotment”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) thereof the words “before a Police, Stipendiary, or Special Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Affidavits, a Commissioner for Declarations, or the Secretary or other proper officer of the company”;

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (4) thereof after the words “a declaration” the words “in a form approved in writing by the Attorney-General or”;.

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) thereof the words “following forms” and inserting in their stead the words “undermentioned forms, and any person who makes in any such declaration any statement which is untrue in any particular shall be guilty of an offence.”;

(e) by inserting at the end of each of the forms contained in sub-regulation (4) thereof the following note:—

“(Note.—This declaration must be made before a Police, Stipendiary, or Special Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Affidavits, a Commissioner for Declarations, or the Secretary or other proper officer of the company.)”;

(f) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) thereof all the words after the forms contained therein, viz.:—

“and any person who makes in any such Declaration any statement which is untrue in any particular shall be guilty of an offence.”; and

(g) by inserting in sub-regulation (5) thereof, after the words “that sub-regulation” the words “or in a form approved by the Attorney-General”.

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