National Security (Holidays and Annual Leave) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 19.

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 twentieth day of January, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. WARD

for and on behalf of the Minister of State

for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Holidays and Annual Leave) Regulations. 

Application of Regulations to the Crown.

1. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Holidays and Annual Leave) Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “shall”, the words “, unless the contrary intention appears,”.

Except as prescribed persons not to be absent from work.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Holidays and Annual Leave) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (9.) the following definitions:—

“‘employee’ means a person employed at or in any establishment, factory, mine, dockyard or workshop, who is engaged wholly or partly in production for war or defence purposes, or in the repair or overhaul of munitions of war, and includes a person employed in any Commonwealth or State Department, or by any authority of the Commonwealth or of a State, who is engaged on work associated with the prosecution of the war;

‘employer’ means an employer of an employee.”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st January, 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No 418, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 541.

 

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(11.) The Minister may exempt any employer or employee or any employer or employee included in a class of employers or employees from the operation of this regulation.”.

 

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