{"id":"C1916L00097","name":"War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916 (Provisional)","slug":"war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"97 of 1916","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":20685,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1916L00097-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916 (Provisional)","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1916\\. No. 97.\n\nPROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1915.\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914–1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.\n\nDated this eighteenth day of May, 1916.\n\nR. M. FERGUSON,\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nG. F. PEARCE,\n\nMinister of State for Defence.\n\nWar Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916.\n\nShort title and citation.\n\n1. These Regulations may to cited as the War Precautions (Supplementary) Regulations 1916.\n\nProhibition of use in trade of word “Anzac” and similar words.\n\n2.—(1) No person shall, after the first day of July, One thousand, nine hundred and sixteen, without the authority of the Governor-General or of a Minister of State, proof whereof shall lie upon the person accused, assume and or use in connexion with any trade, business, calling, or profession the word “Anzac” any word resembling the word “Anzac”, or any word notified by the Governor-General, by notice in the Gazette, to be for the purposes of this Regulation a prohibited word.\n\n(2) Without limiting the meaning of the preceding sub-regulation, a word shall be deemed to be assumed or used by a person in connexion with any trade, business, calling, or profession if—\n\n(а) it is applied (whether as a trade mark or otherwise) to any goods manufactured, produced, sold, or offered for sale by that person; or\n\n(b) it is used as the name or part of the name of any firm or company registered in Australia.\n\n(3) The Registrar of Trade Marks shall—\n\n(a) refuse to register as a trade mark any word the assumption or use of which in connexion with any trade, business, calling or profession is prohibited under sub-regulation (1) of this regulation; and\n\n(b) unless otherwise directed by the Attorney-General, cancel any existing registration of any such word as a trade mark, and refuse to take any step or further step in connexion with any application for the use of any such word as a trade mark.\n\nC.6386.—Price 3d.  \n\n(4) The Registrar-General or other proper officer of a State charged with the registration of firms and companies may—\n\n(а) permit any firm or company which has been registered under a State Act, and in the name of which there is included any word the use of which in connexion with any trade, business, calling or profession is prohibited under sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, to amend the name of the firm or company by the omission of that word and, if the firm or company so desires, the substitution of any other word or words; or\n\n(b) cancel the registration of any firm or company which refuses or fails to apply within a reasonable period for the amendment of its name.\n\nPrinted and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The summary describes the regulations as originally made; no subsequent amendments are incorporated."},"complexity_factors":["Single prohibition explained in plain terms","Definition of 'use' covers goods and company names","Mandatory duties for trade marks and companies registrars"],"plain_english_summary":"These 1916 regulations made it an offence to use “Anzac” (or similarly gazetted words) in trade, business, firm or company names, trademarks, or on goods without Governor‑General or Ministerial authority, placing the burden of proving such authority on the accused. Registrars were required to refuse or cancel registrations and could force name amendments.\n\nPromulgated as urgent wartime measures under the War Precautions Act, they targeted commercial exploitation of “Anzac” and are now repealed and of historical interest."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional","history":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional/history","analysis":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/war-precautions-supplementary-regulations-1916-provisional/documents"}}