DEFENCE
(TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS).
No. 78 of 1950.
An Act to amend
the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949,
and for other purposes.
[Assented
to 16th December, 1950.]
Preamble.
WHEREAS, by virtue of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946,
as subsequently amended, certain Regulations, orders and other instruments were
declared to be maintained in force until the thirty-first day of December, One
thousand nine hundred and fifty, for the purpose of bringing about a gradual
and orderly return from war conditions to conditions of peace:
And Whereas for that purpose it is desirable that certain of those
Regulations, orders and other instruments should be maintained in force until
the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one:
And Whereas, for the further purpose of assisting to meet the
increasing defence requirements and commitments of Australia as a member of the
British Commonwealth of Nations and of the United Nations, it is desirable that
certain of those Regulations, orders and other instruments should be in force
until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and
fifty-one:
Be it
therefore enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title end citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1950.
(2.) The Defence
(Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1950.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
Operation
of Certain Regulations.
3. Section six of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949 is amended by omitting
from sub-section (1.) the word “fifty” and inserting in its stead the word “fifty-one”.
Certain
instruments to be in force by virtue of this Act.
4.—(1.) The instruments to which the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949
purported to give force or subsistence immediately before the date of
commencement of this Act shall, by force of this Act, be in force or subsisting
until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and
fifty-one.
(2.) The Defence (Transitional
Provisions) Act 1946-1950
(including the provisions of that Act relating to amendment, repeal and
revocation) shall, by force of this Act, have, in relation to those instruments
as in force or subsisting by force of this Act, the same operation as the
corresponding provisions of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 19-16-1949 purported to have in
relation to those instruments as in force or subsisting by force of that Act.
(3.) In this section, “instruments” includes
Regulations, orders, awards and determinations.