NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941
- Reprinted as at 30 June 1982 (HISTACT CHAP 207 #DATE 30:06:1982)
*1* The National Fitness Act 1941 as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 26, 1941 amended as indicated in the Tables below. Table of Acts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application, saving Number Date Date of or transitional Act and year of Assent commencement provisions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Fitness Act 1941 26, 1941 4 July 1941 1 Aug 1941 National Fitness Amendment Act 1979 16, 1979 19 Mar 1979 19 Mar 1979 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Amendments ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provision affected How affected ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ss. 3-5 . . . . . . . am. No. 16, 1979 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Commonwealth Council for National Fitness
4. National Fitness Fund
5. Application of Fund
6. Annual report
7. Regulations
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NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - LONG TITLE
SECT
An Act relating to National Fitness
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 1.
Short title
SECT
1. This Act may be cited as the National Fitness Act 1941.*1*
See notes to first article of this CHAPTER.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 2.
Interpretation
SECT
2. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
"the Council" means the Commonwealth Council for National Fitness appointed
under this Act;
"the Fund" means the National Fitness Fund established by this Act.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 3.
Commonwealth Council for National Fitness
SECT
3. (1) The Governor-General may appoint a Commonwealth Council for National
Fitness consisting of such number of members (not exceeding 9) as the
Governor-General thinks fit.
(2) The Council shall advise the Minister with respect to the promotion of
national fitness, and in particular in relation to-
(a) the measures to be adopted to develop appreciation of the need for
physical fitness;
(b) the provision of facilities for instruction in the principles of
physical education;
(c) the organization of movements, and the provision of facilities, for
attaining or maintaining personal physical fitness; and
(d) the training of teachers of classes, and of leaders of movements or
groups, formed for the purpose of promoting physical fitness.
(3) The Council may make enquiries into the causes of physical unfitness in
the community, and may for that purpose co-operate with the National Health
and Medical Research Council.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 4.
National Fitness Fund
SECT
4. (1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a Trust Account which
shall be known as the National Fitness Fund.
(2) The Fund established in pursuance of this section shall be a Trust
Account for the purposes of section 62A of the Audit Act 1901-1934.
(3) There shall be paid into the Fund-
(a) moneys appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the Fund;
(b) income derived from the investment of the moneys standing to the credit
of the Fund;
(c) moneys received by the Commonwealth from the disposal of property
purchased or produced, or in respect of any work paid for, out of the moneys
standing to the credit of the Fund;
(d) moneys received by the Commonwealth in pursuance of a licence or
permission granted or given in relation to industrial property rights (whether
or not owned by the Commonwealth), being a licence or permission granted or
given for any purpose for which the moneys standing to the credit of the Fund
may be applied; and
(e) moneys received by the Commonwealth by way of or as a result of a gift,
devise or bequest made for any purpose for which the moneys standing to the
credit of the Fund may be applied.
(4) In paragraph (3) (d), "industrial property rights" means-
(a) a copyright in any work or other subject-matter;
(b) a patent for an invention;
(c) a trade mark; or
(d) a copyright in a registered design.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 5.
Application of Fund
SECT
5. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the Minister may apply the moneys
standing to the credit of the Fund for the purpose of providing assistance-
(a) to encourage the development of national fitness in each State under
the direction of a National Fitness Council appointed by the Government of the
State;
(b) to promote physical education in schools, universities and other
institutions; and
(c) for such other purposes in relation to the matters specified in
sub-sections 3 (2) and (3) as the Minister determines.
(2) Where any moneys are received by the Commonwealth by way of or as a
result of a gift, devise or bequest made for any purpose for which the moneys
standing to the credit of the fund may be applied, being a gift, devise or
bequest that is subject to a condition as to the purposes for which it may be
applied, those moneys, and income derived from the investment of those moneys,
may be applied only for those purposes.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 6.
Annual report
SECT
6. The Minister shall, each year, cause a general report containing a
summary of the work done under this Act during the preceding year to be
prepared and laid before both Houses of the Parliament.
NATIONAL FITNESS ACT 1941 - SECT. 7.
Regulations
SECT
7. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed,
or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act.
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