National Security (Boot Trades Dilution) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 84.

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 1939-1940.

Dated this thirty-first day of May, 1944.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Boot Trades Dilution) Regulations.

1. Regulation 14 of the National Security (Boot Trades Dilution) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2.) the words “, except during such periods as the apprentice is absent from his place of employment for the purpose of undergoing instruction at any technical or similar school”.

2. The National Security (Boot Trades Dilution) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Investigations and inspections.

“21.—(1.) The Secretary to the Department may authorize any Commonwealth employee to make investigations and reports in relation to the observance of these Regulations.

“(2.) Subject to the general control and direction of the Chairman of the Central Dilution Committee, a Commonwealth employee so authorized may at any time during working hours enter an establishment, factory or workshop, in which any trade to which these Regulations apply is being carried on, and may inspect any work, material, machinery, appliance, article, book or document therein, and may interview any person employed therein.

“(3.) A person shall not hinder or obstruct a Commonwealth employee so authorized in the exercise of his powers under these Regulations.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 255, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No.  .

 

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

3096.—Price 3d.  10/15.5.1944.