STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 101.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

War Precautions (Passports) Regulations 1916—Regulation 4—Amendment.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, 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 April, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

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War Precautions (Passports) Regulations 1916.

Amendment.

Regulation 4 of the War Precautions (Passports) Regulations is amended to read as follows:—

Persons leaving the Commonwealth to have passports bearing the visa of Collector of Customs, &c.

“4. No person whose age exceeds, or appears to an officer to exceed sixteen years, shall embark at any place in the Commonwealth for a journey to any place beyond the Commonwealth unless:—

(a) he is the holder of a passport; and

(b) his passport has been viseed or indorsed for that journey by the Secretary of the Department of Home and Territories or by a Collector or other principal officer of Customs at a port in the Commonwealth.

Any passport required to be presented for a visa or indorsement must be lodged with the Secretary of the Department of Home and Territories or with a Collector or other principal officer of Customs at least seven days before the intended embarkation of the holder, and must be accompanied by an application in a form to be obtained from any of these officers together with a fee of two shillings.”

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