National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 106.

 

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 twenty-eighth day of April, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. WARD

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations.

Definitions.

Regulation 4 of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the definition of “war worker” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“ ‘war worker’ means—

(a)a person who is engaged in the manufacture, production, repair or overhaul for war purposes of munitions of war or the maintenance of plant therefor; or

(b)a person who is included in a class of persons declared, in pursuance of the next succeeding sub-regulation, to be a class of war workers for the purposes of these Regulations.”; and

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

“(2.) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare the persons engaged or employed, in any area specified by the Minister in the order, in any work, or by any person, so specified, to be a class of war workers for the purposes of these Regulations.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th April, 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 169, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 207 and 324; and 1942, Nos. 17, 171, 256 and 354.

 

By Authority: l. f. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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