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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 49.

 

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  fifth

day of February  , 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

After regulation 59c of the National Security (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

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

“59d.—.(1.) Where the Minister is satisfied that the owner of any dead timber (whether standing or fallen) has been requested by any person to grant to that person the right to enter on any land owned or occupied by that owner and to cut down or remove therefrom any standing trees or fallen timber which in the opinion of the Minister is suitable for the production of charcoal on terms which appear to the Minister to be fair and reasonable, and has refused or failed to grant any such right, the Minister may, by order, authorize that person to enter on the land and cut down and remove from the land any standing dead timber thereon, or remove from the land any fallen timber thereon and the person so authorized may thereupon enter the land for the purpose specified in the order.

“(2.) A person shall not obstruct any other person acting in pursuance of an authorization by the Minister under this regulation.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1942.

 Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177; 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 45, 67, 71, 90, 91, 93, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, 191, 243, 246, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 270; 1941, Nos. 2, 8, 9, 40, 69, 112, 116, 125, 171, 174, 179, 248, 266, 268, 274, 287, 291, 301 and 325.

791.—25/30.1.1942.—Price 3d.

 

“(3.) The price to be paid by the person cutting down and removing, or removing, any dead timber from any land pursuant to this regulation to the owner of such timber shall be such price as is fixed by the Prices Commissioner pursuant to the National Security (Prices) Regulations.

“(4.) A person entering any land and cutting down or removing any dead timber pursuant to this regulation shall in doing so use all reasonable care not to damage the land or cause other damage or loss and shall pay to any person injured such compensation for any such damage or loss caused by him as is fair and reasonable having regard to all the circumstances.

“(5.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘the Minister’ means the Minister of State for Munitions.”.

 

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