National Security (Allied Works) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 16.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

 

I, 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 National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this sixteenth day of February, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

 

JOHN CURTIN

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations.

Administration

1. Regulation 2 of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “the Interior” and inserting in their stead the word “Works “.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 3 of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from the definition of the word “Corps” the words “by the Director-General”; and

(b) by omitting the definition of “the Director-General” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘the Director-General’ means the Director-General of Works, Department of Works;”.

Director-General of Allied Works.

3. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations is repealed.

Compensation.

4. Regulation 6a of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “the Interior” and inserting in their stead the word “Works”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th February, 1945.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 170, 384 and 435; 1943, Nos. 77, 97 and 100; and 1944, Nos. 17 and 161.

872.—Price 3d.

 

Civil Constructional Corps.

5. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “the Director-General may establish” and inserting in their stead the words “there shall be”.

References to Director-General of Allied Works.

6.—(1.) In any instrument under the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations (including any award, order, determination, contract, agreement or direction) or in any industrial award or order, any reference to the Director-General of Allied Works shall be read as a reference to the Director-General of Works, Department of Works.

(2.) Any instrument (including any order, determination, contract, agreement or direction) made by the Director-General of Allied Works or by a delegate of the Director-General of Allied Works under the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations or under any order under those Regulations, which was in force immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation, shall continue in force as if this regulation had been in force at the time it was made and as if it had been made by the Director-General of Works, Department of Works, under those Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, and may be revoked, suspended or varied accordingly.

(3.) Every person who immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation was a member of the Civil Constructional Corps established by the Director-General of Allied Works under the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations shall, by virtue of this sub-regulation, be a member of the Civil Constructional Corps constituted by those Regulations, as amended by these Regulations.

 

By Authority: L. F.