{"id":"C1919L00101","name":"War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations 1918 (Repeal)","slug":"war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"101 of 1919","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":20847,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1919L00101-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations 1918 (Repeal)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nSTATUTORY RULES.\n\n1919. No. 101.\n\n———\n\nREGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1918.\n\nI, 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.\n\nDated this thirtieth day of April, 1919.\n\n(Signed) R. M. FERGUSON,\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nW. MASSY GREENE,\n\nfor Minister of State for Defence.\n\n \n\nRepeal of War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations 1918.\n\nThe War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1918, No. 222, as amended by Statutory Rules 1918, Nos. 229 and 251) are hereby repealed.\n\n \n\nPrinted and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1294},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument performs exactly the stated function of repealing the 1918 Regulations without expansion beyond this purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision consisting solely of a repeal","No defined terms or interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Straightforward citation of the repealed instrument without substantive cross-references"],"plain_english_summary":"**What it does:** This regulation is a post-WWI clean-up measure. It simply **cancels (repeals)** the *War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations 1918*—a set of wartime rules that controlled how Australians could use, buy, or consume certain goods during World War I.\n\n**Why it matters:** During the war, the government had emergency powers to ration materials and restrict consumption to conserve resources for the military. This 1919 instrument removes those specific consumption restrictions, winding back one piece of the wartime economic controls now that the conflict had ended (following the November 1918 Armistice).\n\n**Who it affects:** Primarily businesses and traders who were still subject to the 1918 consumption limits, as well as consumers who could now access previously restricted goods without wartime constraints."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal","history":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-precautions-consumption-of-goods-regulations-1918-repeal/documents"}}