STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 93.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation, under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1918.

Dated this first day of August 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE

Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of Naval Forces Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 196, as amended to this date.).

(Thirteenth Amendment.)

After regulation 5, the following new regulation is inserted, in section I:—

“5a. (1) It shall not be necessary, under or by reason of any law of a Territory or State, for any person to obtain or have any licence or permission to carry or convey, by any means whatsoever—

(a) members of the Naval Forces engaged in or for the purpose of engaging in, or returning from, the performance of their duties as such members or for the purpose of attending or returning from any drill,, practice, competition or engagement, in connexion with their Naval training or

(b) property belonging to the Commonwealth and appropriated to the use of the Naval Forces or belonging to members of the Naval, Forces, and used by them, for any purpose mentioned in this sub-regulation.

(2) It shall be lawful, notwithstanding any law of a Territory or State, for any person to send or cause to be sent or conveyed by any means whatsoever, any persons or property described in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation.

(3) Sub-regulations (1) and (2) of this regulation shall operate as if they had been notified in the Gazette on the thirty-first day of August, 1931 provided that where any sum has been paid prior to the date of the making of these sub-regulations, in pursuance of the law of a Territory or State, the person who has made the payment shall not be entitled by virtue of these sub-regulations to a refund of the whole or any portion of the amount so paid.”

Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 2nd August, 1934.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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