STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 522.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1941.*

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 Defence Act 1903-1941.

Dated this first day of December, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Army.

Amendment of the Australian Military Regulations.†

Documentary evidence.

Regulation 388 of Australian Military Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (l) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(l) The averment of the prosecution or the prosecuting officer that any letter or writing purports to have been written by the member charged or that the letter or writing was posted in an envelope by the member charged, shall, on production in any proceedings of the letter or writing or envelope or a copy certified by a civil or military censorship authority to be a true copy of the letter or writing or envelope, be prima facie evidence that the letter or writing was written by that member or that the letter or writing was posted in the envelope by that member, as the case may be.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1927, No. 140, as amended by Statutory Rules 1928, Nos. 23, 28 and 126; 1929, No. 123; 1930, Nos. 26, 67 and 92; 1931, No. 13; 1932, Nos. 80, 87 and 125; 1933, Nos. 49 and 77; 1934, Nos. 26 and 80; 1935, Nos. 99 and 109; 1936, Nos. 21, 44 and 100; 1937, No. 45; 1938, Nos. 75, 90 and 93; 1939, Nos. 31, 51, 58, 115, 123, 134, 160 and 173; 1940, Nos. 2, 16, 29, 59, 150, 183, 184, 185, 186, 199, 237, 252, 272 and 273; 1941, Nos. 3, 4, 14, 43, 135, 153, 155, 205, 245, 246, 260 and 311; and 1942, Nos. 35, 50, 60, 85, 114, 166, 170, 211, 231, 289, 333, 334, 350 and 417.

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

7621.—Price 3d.        22/21.10.1942.