National Security (Building Control) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 221.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

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 twelfth day of September, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Building Control)Regulations. 

Building permits inoperative in certain cases.

1. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Building Control) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where a person has been, or is, granted a building permit upon an application made with the consent of the Treasurer under these Regulations or under the Regulations repealed by these Regula­tions, and—

(a) in a case where the consent of the Treasurer was granted more than six months before the date of commencement of this sub-regulation—the erection or alteration of that building was not substantially commenced before that date; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 131.

5530—18/3.9.1941.—Price 3d.

 

(b) in any other case—the erection or alteration of that building was not, or is not, substantially commenced within six months after the date on which the consent of the Treasurer was, or is, granted,

the permit shall be inoperative.”.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Building Control) Regulations is amended by omitting from the definition of “cost” the words “and also includes architects’ fees,”.

Building permits not to be applied for in certain eases without consent.

3. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Building Control) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.), after the word “dwelling-house”, the words “by not more than two households.”

After regulation 6 of the National Security (Building Control) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Application of Regulations to certain persons.

“6a.—(1.) Where, by reason of the law in force in any State, any person (other than the Government of that State) is not required to obtain a building permit for the erection or alteration of a building, that person shall not, without the consent in writing of the Treasurer, commence the erection or alteration of any building for which erection or alteration a building permit would, but for that law, be required.

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply in respect of any erection or alteration specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-regulation (2.) of the last preceding regulation.”.

 

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