REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT REPEAL ACT 1920-1922.
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 Repeal Act 1920-1922, to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this twenty-eighth day of February, 1923.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
THOS. W. CRAWFORD,
for Treasurer.
Amendment of War Precautions (Companies, Firms, and Businesses) Regulations 1916.
(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 49, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 3 of the War Precautions (Companies, Firms, and Businesses) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting, before the words “he shall be guilty of an offence ”, the words “or carries on business or attempts to carry on business for or on behalf of any such company”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(2.) It shall be an offence for any company specified in paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation to commence or continue to carry on business in any State without the consent of the Treasurer.
“(3.) The consent of the Treasurer to the registration of a company in any State shall be deemed to include consent to carry on business in that State.”
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