Electricity Restriction Regulations (ACT)
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.
Regulations 1949. No. 6.*
Regulations under the Buildings and Services Ordinance
1924-1942.
H E R B E R T V I C T O R J O H N S O N , Minister of State for the
I , Interior, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Buildings
and Services Ordinance 1924-1942,. hereby make the following Regulations.
| * | Dated this twenty-second day of June , 1949. |
V I C T O R J O H N S O N Minister of State for the Interior .
E L E C T R I C I T Y R E S T R I C T I O N R E G U L A T I O N S .
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electricity Restriction Regulations.
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2. I n these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— Definitions.
" electrici ty" means electricity supplied in pursuance of the
Canberra and Jervis Bay Electric Supply Regulations;
" licensed premises" has the same meaning as in the IAquor
Ordinance 1929-1948;
" working day " means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday
or public holiday.
| 3.—(1.) A person shall not on any working day use or consume between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. any electricity— | Re8trict ions |
| on une of |
(a) for the purpose of, or a purpose connected with, a n y e e c n c y"
advertisement or sign;
(b) for the purpose of any shop front lighting, shop entrance lighting, shop window lighting, display window lighting, show case lighting, under awning lighting, lighting of any tennis court, bowling green, swimming bath, race- course, sports ground, showground, fair, fete or carnival, or of any interior display or decorative lighting, or of the external or open-air lighting of a theatre, public hall, place of public amusement or entertainment, or the flood- lighting of any building; or
2892.—PRICE 3D. (c) for the purpose of space heating, radiating heat or heating
air by means of a radiator or air-conditioning plant or other appliance, except in a building in which, and1 to
the extent to which, such heating is necessary for the
purpose of a manufacturing process.
(2.) This regulation shall not operate to prohibit the use of electricity for heating a room where other heating facilities are not available.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 23rd June, 1949.
Use of
| electricity | 4. A person shall not, on any working day, use or consume in any |
| in building | building or portion of a building used exclusively for residential pur- |
| u&ed exclusively | |
| for residential | poses, any electricity between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., except (a) refrigeration or operating a clock; or |
| purposes. | for the purpose of— |
casting.
Electricity
| not to be used | 5.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, a person shall not, in any office |
| in certain | premises, restaurant, licensed premises, theatre, public hall, place of |
| premises at | |
| rate in excess | public amusement or entertainment, or in any other building, not being |
| of rate prior | |
| to 28th April, | a warehouse or shop, use or consume on any working day, between the |
| 1948. | hours of 7 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., any electricity for the general interio: lighting of those premises at a rate in excess of fifty per centum o * the rate at which electricity was consumable on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1948, by the lighting fittings installed in the premises. |
| (2.) A person shall not, in any warehouse or shap, use or consume on any working day, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., any electricity for the general interior lighting of the j^remises at a rate— (a) in excess of fifty per centum of the rate at which electricity was consumable on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1948, by the lighting fittings installed in the warehouse or |
shop; or
(b) in excess of 75 watts per 100 square feet of floor space of any shop or display room and 20 watts per 100 square feet of floor space of any warehouse or internal passage or storage spaces in shops or warehouses,
whichever is the less.
(3.) This regulation shall not apply to the use or consumption of electricity—(a) in any factory;
(b) in any building or portion of a building used exclusively
for residential purposes;
(c) by any wireless s tat ion;
(d) for the purpose of holding any church service;
(e) for the purpose of lighting the interior of any butcher's shop where such lighting is necessary for the safety of
any person engaged in the cutting up of meat ; or(/) for the purpose of lighting any public convenience or
retiring room.
(4.) Any shoip or room having a floor space of less than one hundred square feet shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be deemed to have a floor space of 100 square feet.
| Regulations | 6.— (1.) Nothing in these Regulations shall operate to prohibit or (</) the conduct of any hospital, rest room, day nursery, clinic or baby health centre, or of any institution for the care, relief or treatment of sick persons; |
not to apply
| to hospitals, &c. | restrict the use or consumption of electricity for any purpose neces- sarily connected with— |
(h) the practice of his profession by a legally qualified medical
practitioner or registered dentist;
(c) the care of any person under the age of four years ; or
(d) the dispensing of medicine by a registered pharmacist upon
the prescription of a legally qualified medical practitioner.
(2.) I t shall be sufficient defence to a prosecution for the use or
consumption of electricity in contravention of the provisions of these
Eegulations if the person charged proves that the use or consumption
was solely—
(a) for the purpose of the care, relief or treatment of a sick
or infirm person;
(b) for any educational or scientific purposes in a school or
college;
(c) for the minimum lighting required in a building for the
| • | safety of persons using the building. |
may authorize in writing a person to enter at any time and inspect demises.11 ° r 7.—(1.) The Minister or the Secretary, Department of the Interior, Entry and
any premises which are supplied with electricity for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of these Regulations are being complied' with.
(2.) A person shall not refuse admission to any premises to any person authorized under the last preceding sub-regulation to enter and inspect premises, or obstruct any such person in the exercise of his authority.
8. A person shall not contravene or fail to comply with any Offences,
provision of these Eegulations which is applicable to him.
Pena l ty : Fifty pounds or imprisonment for three months.
| By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra. |
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