Commonwealth legislation

War Precautions (Leather Industries) Regulations 1917 (Repeal)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

115 of 1919

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation repeals (cancels) the War Precautions (Leather Industries) Regulations 1917.

What it does During World War I, the Commonwealth government imposed emergency controls on industries critical to the war effort. The 1917 regulations governed Australia's leather industries—essential for manufacturing military boots, saddles, and equipment. This 1919 regulation simply removes those wartime controls, effectively handing control of the leather trade back to normal peacetime operations.

Who it affects

Leather manufacturers, tanners, and traders previously bound by the 1917 rules
Businesses supplying leather goods to defence forces (now operating under ordinary commercial law rather than wartime directives)

Why it matters Made in May 1919, six months after the Armistice, this represents the demobilisation of emergency wartime powers as Australia transitioned back to peacetime governance.

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STATUTORY RULES.

No. 115.

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 fourteenth day of May, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. RUSSELL,

Acting Minister of State for Defence.

Repeal of War Precautions (Leather Industries) Regulations 1917.

The War Precautions (Leather Industries) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1917, No. 100, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 198 and 301) are hereby repealed.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

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