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

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 99.

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 twentieth day of June, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

 

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations.

Restrictions on building operations.

1. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) Where a building operation is commenced prior to the thirtieth day of June in any year and is continued, otherwise than in pursuance of a consent of the Minister, after that date, then, for the purposes of sub-regulation (1.), and of paragraphs (h), (i), (j) and (k)of sub-regulation (2.), of this regulation, that part of the building operation which is carried out after the thirtieth day of June during any part of the ensuing twelve months shall be deemed to be a building operation commenced on the first day of July in that year.

“(5.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, a person shall be deemed to commence or continue to carry out a building operation if the carrying out of that building operation is commenced or continued (as the case may be) at his request or at his expense.”.

Grant of consent by the Minister.

2. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “as he thinks fit” the words “(including, in a case where the premises on which the

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd June, 1945.

  Statutory Rules 1944, No. 85, as amended by Statutory Rules 1944, No. 118.

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building operation is to be carried out are required for purposes specified in the application, such conditions or limitations as to the letting or use of the premises as he considers necessary or convenient to ensure that the premises are used for those purposes)”.

Power to revoke and suspend consent.

3. Regulation 11 of the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “or may vary the terms and conditions of the consent.”.

4. After regulation 12 of the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Commencement of building operations by architects, builders and others.

“12a. An architect, builder, contractor or engineer employed in any capacity, and any person employed in any advisory or supervisory capacity, in connexion with a building operation, shall not, unless the building operation is one to which the provisions of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 8 of these Regulations do not apply, commence or continue to carry out, or to assist in the carrying out of, that building operation unless the commencement or continuance of the carrying out of the building operation is authorized by a consent granted by the Minister under these Regulations.”.

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