STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 182.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Deputy of 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 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifteenth day of July, 1919.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

Acting Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 240 and 252, and by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 103, 119, 141 and 147.)

Regulation 8a of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the word “light” (wherever occurring), and inserting in its stead the word “current”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3) Where, in pursuance of any notice published under this regulation, the use of electric current or gas is prohibited between certain hours, any person who fails or neglects during the prohibited hours—

(i) to keep the current at the main or service switches cut off; or

(ii) to keep the stopcocks turned off,

shall be guilty of an offence.”.

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