STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 224.

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 Regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914–1916, to come into operation on and from the 1st October, 1918.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of August, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

War Precautions Regulations 1915.

The following new regulation is inserted after regulation 25c:—

Restriction on importation and exportation of postage stamps.

25d. (1) Any person who without the permission in writing of an officer of the censorship staff transmits, consigns, conveys or exports postage stamps from the Commonwealth, or conveys or imports postage stamps into the Commonwealth, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) This regulation does not apply to postage stamps affixed to postal articles in payment of postage.

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