STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 11.

______________

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1916.

I, SIR JOHN MADDEN, 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 Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914–1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

JOHN MADDEN,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

______________

Amendment of the War Precautions (Companies) Regulations 1916.

(Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 49 and 137.)

The War Precautions (Companies) Regulations 1916 are amended by inserting after Regulation 5 the following Regulation: —

Persons not to liquidate or remove registration of company without consent.

“ 5a.—(1) Any person who, without the consent of the Treasurer, takes or continues to take any steps towards the voluntary liquidation of a company or towards the removal of the place of registration of a company from Australia to another country, shall be guilty of an offence.

“(2) The Treasurer may attach to his consent such conditions as he thinks fit.

“(3) Any person who fails to comply with any of the conditions attached to the consent of the Treasurer shall be guilty of an offence.”

_________________________________

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.5.—Price 3d.