National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 381.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this second day of September, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

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

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Amendment of the National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations. 

Applications for permission to employ females.

Regulation 6 of the National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (4.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(4a.) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, where by or under any law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, the employment of females on work in or about any bar-room of any licensed premises is prohibited (whether absolutely or subject to specified exceptions), any decision of the Board (whether given before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation and whether given unconditionally or subject to conditions) that females may be employed on that work shall not, in so far as it is inconsistent with that law, have any force or effect unless and until the decision is approved by the Minister of State for Labour and National Service by order published in the Gazette.

“In this sub-regulation, the expression ‘licensed premises’ means premises in respect of which a licence for the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor is in force or deemed to be in force.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 2nd September, 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 146, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 236, 263 and 294.

 

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