Australian Rifle Club Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1932. No. 108.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927.

I, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the DefenceAct 1903-1927, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-second day of September, 1932.

PHILIP GAME

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Australian Rifle Club Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1931, No. 120, as amended to this date.)

Amendments.

The Australian Rifle Club Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Part:—

“Part IV.—Miscellaneous.

Canteens.

80. (1) The Council of a State Rifle Association or the District Council of a District Rifle Club Union or the Committee of a Rifle Club may, with the approval in writing of a District Base Commandant, conduct a canteen on a rifle range during the continuance of a meeting held for the purpose of competition or practice in rifle shooting.

(2) Subject to this regulation, a State Rifle Association, District Rifle Club Union, or Rifle Club, may enter into a contract with any person for the conduct by that person of a canteen on a rifle range during the continuance of any meeting held for the purpose of competition or practice in rifle shooting on that range.

(3) The making of any such contract shall be authorized by a resolution passed by the majority of a duly constituted quorum at a duly constituted meeting of the Council of the State Rifle Association, the District Council of the District Rifle Club Union, or the Committee of the Rifle Club, as the case may be, and the resolution may also authorize one or more persons to sign the contract on behalf of the State Rifle Association, District Rifle Club Union, or Rifle Club.

(4) Any such contract may authorize the person contracting to conduct the canteen to erect, on the rifle range (though belonging to the Commonwealth) on which the canteen is to be conducted, such accommodation as shall be necessary or convenient for the conduct of the canteen, and may require him, after the conclusion of the meeting, to remove the accommodation so erected.

2729.—Price 3d.

 

(5) Every contract authorized under this regulation shall be in writing signed by or on behalf of the parties thereto, but shall not have effect until it has been approved, in writing, by a District Base Commandant.

(6) All profits derived from the conduct of a canteen pursuant to this regulation, by the Council of a State Rifle Association, or the District Council of a District Rifle Club Union, or the Committee of a Rifle Club, and all money received from any contractor for the privilege of conducting a canteen, under a contract made pursuant to this regulation, shall form part of the funds of the State Rifle Association, District Rifle Club Union or Rifle Club, by whose Council, District Council or Committee, or on behalf of which, the canteen was conducted.

(7) Intoxicating liquor shall not be sold or supplied at any canteen conducted pursuant to this regulation—

(a) in the case of a canteen conducted by the Council of a State Rifle Association, or the District Council of a District Rifle Club Union, or the Committee of a Rifle Club—without the approval in writing of a District Base Commandant; or

(b)in the case of a canteen conducted by a contractor—except as provided by the contract under which the canteen is conducted.

(8) It shall not be necessary under or by reason of any law of a State to obtain or have any licence or permission for—

(a) keeping, or permitting the consumption of, intoxicating liquor; or

(b) supplying intoxicating liquor, on sale or otherwise, to, or at the expense of, members of the Military Forces or of Rifle Clubs;

at any canteen conducted in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.”

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.