Electricity Restriction Regulations (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

Regulations 1948. No. 1.

Regulations under the Buildings and Services

Ordinance 1924-1942.

I N E L S O N LEMMON, Minister for Works and Housing, acting	,	for and on behalf of the Minister of State for the Interior, in
pursuance of the powers conferred by the Buildings	and	Services

Ordinance 1924-1942, hereby make the following Regulations.

Dated this eleventh day of August, 1948.

N E L S O N L E M M O N

acting for and on behalf of the 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 eited as the Electricity Restriction uitatiou.

Regulations.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— Definitions.

" electricity " means electricity supplied in pursuance of the pro-

visions of any law in force in the Terr i tory;

"licensed premises" has the same meaning as in the Liquor

Ordinance 1929-1948;

" public utility " includes any air port, weather bureau, obser- vatory, ambulance station, police station, fire brigade, wire- less station, post office, water pumping station, sewerage plant, railway station or electric supply station;

3.—(1.) A person shall not use or consume electricity— Restrictions

, N j . , ,. . . . -. . on use of

(a) tor tne purpose ot, or in connexion with, any advertisement electricity.

or sign of any description whatsoever other than a direc-
tional sign used by a public ut i l i ty; or

(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 pool, racecourse, 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 floodlighting of any other building.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

(2.) Any person who is convicted of an offence against any provision of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds or to imprisonment for three months, and, when the offence is a continuing offence, a penalty not exceeding Five pounds for each day during the period during which the offence continues.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gasette oil 19th August, 1948.

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

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