STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 118.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this fourteenth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 46, 53, 82, and 96.)

Amendment of heading to Regulation 13.

1. The heading to Regulation 13 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the words “on Sugar.”

Amendment of Regulation 13.

2. Regulation 13 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations in amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-Regulation (1) thereof the words “refined sugar “and by inserting the word “goods” in their stead; and

(b) by inserting in sub-Regulation (3) thereof, after the word “Regulation,” the words “fixing the maximum freight which may be charged on the carriage of refined sugar.”

Amendment of Regulation 14.

3 Regulation 14 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the words “refined sugar” and inserting the word “goods” in their stead.

4 After Regulation 14 of the War Precautious (Prices Adjustment) Regulations, the following Regulation is inserted:—

Freights not to be increased

“15 From and after the date of the commencement of this Regulation no increase shall be made in the charges for freight, beyond those prevailing at the date of the making of this Regulation, on the carriage of goods from any port in Australia to any other port in Australia, unless the written consent of the Minister has first been obtained.”

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