STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 234.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

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 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of November, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations as Amended to this Date.

Contracts declared void under Expropriation Ordinance of German New Guinea.

After regulation 56 of the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“57. Where in pursuance of section 4a of the Expropriation Ordinances of the Colony of German New Guinea, the Administrator of that Colony publishes a notice declaring that any contract with a company, firm or estate which has become a prescribed company, prescribed firm, or prescribed estate within the meaning of those Ordinances, is null and void, the notice shall have effect in the Commonwealth, and any Territory of the Commonwealth to the intent that the contract to which the notice relates shall, in the Commonwealth and any such Territory, be null and void to the same extent as in the Colony of German New Guinea.”

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