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

STATUTORY RULES

1941. No. 324.

 

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-ninth day of December, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

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

 

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

Provisions with respect to ledgers.

After regulation 8 of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“8a.—(1.) Where any person, being a war worker who is the holder of a certificate under regulation 5 of those Regulations, or the wife or child of any such war worker, is a lodger at any premises in a prescribed area, the occupier of the premises shall not, without reasonable cause (proof whereof shall lie upon him), refuse to continue to provide lodging for that person on the existing terms and conditions, whether as to remuneration for the lodging or otherwise.

“(2.) An occupier shall be deemed to have reasonable cause for refusing to continue to provide lodging for any such person where that person—

(a) fails to pay the remuneration therefor;

(b) wilfully causes damage to the property of the occupier or of any other person residing in the premises; or

(c) behaves on the premises in an offensive manner.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th December, 1041.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 169, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 207.

 

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

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