STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 51.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1925.

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 Immigration Act 1901-1925, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-first day of May, 1930.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ARTHUR BLAKELEY

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

Amendment of the Immigration Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 185, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 13 of the Immigration Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead.—

Persons refusing to answer questions or making false statements.

“13.—(1.) Any person who—

(a) refuses to answer any question lawfully put to him by an officer; or

(b) makes or presents to an officer any statement or document which is false in any particular,

shall be guilty of an offence.

“(2.) In any proceedings for an offence against this regulation the burden of proving the truth of the statement in respect of which the proceedings have been instituted, or the genuineness of the document presented, shall rest on the person accused.

“(3.) Proceedings under this regulation may be taken before a court of summary jurisdiction, and may be commenced at any time within three years after the commission of the offence.”

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.