STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 55.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions (Aliens Registration) Regulations 1916—Regulation 7 (1)—Amendment.

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 twenty-seventh day of February, 1918.

JOHN MADDEN,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions (Aliens Registration) Regulations 1916.

Amendment.

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 7 of the War Precautions (Aliens Registration) Regulations, which reads as follows:—

Aliens arriving in Commonwealth—manner of effecting registration.

“7. (1) An alien entering the Commonwealth as a passenger in or as the master or as a member of the crew of an oversea vessel, shall effect his registration by properly completing a notice (in triplicate) in accordance with Form A2 in the Schedule to these Regulations, and by attending in person, immediately after the arrival of the vessel at the first port of call in the Commonwealth, before an Aliens Registration Officer on board the vessel with the following documents:—

(a) the notice in Form A2, in triplicate; and

(b) his certificate of registration (if he has been registered under these Regulations during a previous visit to the Commonwealth, and if his certificate was not taken from him on his departure from the Commonwealth); and

(c) his passport (if he be a passenger or member of the crew not signed on in Australia but due for discharge in a Commonwealth port).”

is amended by inserting the following words at the end:—

“Provided that a master or member of the crew of a vessel who holds a certificate of registration in Form B2 issued to him on his last previous voyage to the Commonwealth shall not be required to prepare notices in Form A2.”

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