STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 286.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this tenth day of November, 1916.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions (Prices) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916 No 166 as amended by Statutory Rules 1916 No. 188.)

1 Regulation 15 of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation any person on whose behalf or at whose place of business any foodstuffs or necessary commodities are sold or offered for sale at a greater price than the maximum price fixed by or under these Regulations for the sale of those foodstuffs or necessary commodities as the case may be, or on whose behalf or at whose place of business these are charged for services any higher rates than the maximum rates fixed under these Regulations, whether the foodstuffs or necessary commodities are sold or offered for sale, or the rates are charged, contrary to the instructions of the person or not shall be guilty of an offence.”

2. Regulation 16 of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso.—

“Provided that, in the case of freight on the carriage from any part in Australia to any other part in Australia, of sugar or of any syrup or treacle the product of sugar, the maximum freight which may be charged without the written consent, of the Minister shall be the maximum freight which was charged during the year 1915 on the carriage of the sugar, syrup, or treacle, as the case may be, from the first-mentioned part to the last-mentioned part.”

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