National Security (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 547.

 

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

day of , 1942.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Authority to enter land and cut down and remove dead timber.

Regulation 59d of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “charcoal”, the words “or for the production of firewood”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) The price to be paid to the owner of the timber by the person cutting down and removing, or removing, from any land in pursuance of this regulation, any dead timber, shall be—

(a)in the case of timber for the production of charcoal—such price as is fixed by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner in pursuance of the National Security (Prices) Regulations; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended to date. For previous National Security (General) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 374, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 402, 405, 448, 467, 475 and 486.

8385.—Price 3d. 25/25.11.1942.

 

(b) in the case of timber for the production of firewood—the prices fixed by the competent State Forest authority of the State in which the land is situated, on the same basis as if the land and timber were Crown land and Crown property:

Provided that if the owner is not satisfied with the price so fixed under paragraph (b) and appeals to the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, or if the land is not situated in a State, the price shall be a price to be fixed by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner.”.

 

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