STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 250.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-second day of October, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GEO. H. WISE,

for Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of the 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, Nos. 44 and 76.)

1. The War Precautions (Land Transfer) Regulations are amended by inserting therein after regulation 4c the following regulation:—

Transfers of land by enemy subject.

“4cc. (1) From and after the date of the regulation no person who is—

(a) an enemy subject, or

(b) a naturalized person of enemy origin who is interned or who has been deported from the Commonwealth,

shall—

(a) transfer or enter into any contract or agreement for the transfer of real estate,

(b) mortgage any real estate, or

(c) grant any lease of real estate.

“(2) Any transfer, contract, agreement, mortgage or lease made, entered into or granted in contravention of this regulation, shall be void and of no effect.”

2. The War Precautions (Land Transfer) Regulations are amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) of regulation 7 thereof the words “or 4c” and inserting in their stead the words “4c or 4cc”.

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