STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 328.

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 make the following Regulations, under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this nineteenth day of December, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. M. HUGHES,

for Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Companies, Firms, and Businesses) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 49, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 137, and Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 11, 35, and 289.)

Regulation 5b of the War Precautions (Companies Firms and Businesses) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) The Treasurer may, if he thinks fit, by notice in writing served upon any person, firm, company, society, club or association or published in the Gazette, direct that any building or structure, in relation to which he is satisfied that a contravention of these Regulations has taken place, be not used for amusement purposes either for the period specified in the notice or until the Treasurer revokes his direction, and any person, firm, company, society, club or association who or which, during any period specified by the Treasurer, or so long as the direction is unrevoked, uses or permits to be used for amusement purposes any such building or structure shall, for each day during which he or it so uses the building or structure or permits it to be so used be guilty of an offence.”

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