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OF 1916. Defence of India (Amendment). ACT NO. II OF 1916, [PASSED BY THE INDIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.] (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 16th February, 1916.) An Act to amend the Defence of India (Crimi- nal Law Amendment) Act, 1915. W Act THEREAS it is expedient to amend the Defonos IV of 1815. It is hereby enacted as follows: 1. This Act may be called the Defence of India Sbort tilie. (Amendment) Act, 1916. 2. After clause () of sub-section (1) of section 2 of Amendment the Defence of India (Criminal Law Amendment) Act IV of IV of 1915. Act, 1915, the following clauses shall be inserted, 1916. namely: " (m) to require that there shall be placed, at the disposal of the Governor General in Council, the whole or any part of the output of any factory, workshop, mine or other industrial concern for the manufacture, preparation or extraction of any article or thing which, in his opinion, can be utilised in the prosecution of the present war; (n.) to take possession of, and use for the purpose of the Governor General in Council, any such factory, workshop, mine or industrial concern or any appur- tenances or plant thereof; () to require any work in any such factory, workshop, mine or industrial concern to be done in accordance with the directions of the Governor General in Council ; (p) to regulate or restrict the carrying out of work in any such factory, workshop, mine or industrial concern, or to remove the plant therefrom with the object of increasing the output of any other such factory, workshop, mine or industrial concern; (2) to