STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 119.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION 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 Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

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, 96, and 118.)

After Regulation 11 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—

Appointment of person to hold inquiry in Northern Territory.

“11a (1) The Minister may, if he think fit, appoint a person to conduct any inquiry in the Northern Territory which is considered by the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) For the purpose of any such inquiry the person so appointed shall have and may exercise all the powers and functions conferred on the Board by the preceding Regulations.”

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