STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 314.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH 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 Regulation, under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of November, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 290, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 304, 306, and 308.)

Regulation 42 of the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) thereof the words “shall, notwithstanding any provisions of State law, be not more than forty-eight hours” and inserting in their stead the words “may, notwithstanding any provision of State law, be any time not less than twenty-four hours”.

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