National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 130.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this second day of September, 1944.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations.

Number of meetings not to be increased.

1. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) Where—

(a) large numbers of members of the Defence Force or of any Allied Force are located at any place in the State of Queensland and the Commanding Officer of those forces has certified in writing that additional race-meetings are desirable at that place for the entertainment and relaxation of members of the forces under his command; or

(b) a person or body of persons was prevented from holding race-meetings in the State of Queensland at any time during the previous period whether by reason of the occupation of the race-course of that person or body by any such members, or by other circumstances arising out of the war,

the Premier of that State may authorize such number of race-meetings (not in any case exceeding in any one year the number of meetings held at that place or on that race-course during the year One thousand

 

* Published in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 398, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 419 and 434; 1943, Nos. 88, 113, 213 and 261.

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nine hundred and forty-one) to be held at that place or on that racecourse, as the case may be, as the Premier thinks fit and it shall not be unlawful by reason only of these Regulations to conduct any race-meeting so authorized.

“(5.) The race-meetings authorized to be held in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be in substitution for those which may, in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, otherwise be held.”.

Particulars of racing in other States not to be published.

2. Regulation 13 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is amended by omitting from the first proviso to sub-regulation (1.) the words “the State in which the town is situated or” and inserting in their stead the words “the metropolitan area of the State in which the town is situated or of”.

 

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