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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 261.

 

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 thirteenth day of October, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations

Definitions.

1. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is amended by omitting from the definition of “race-meeting” the word “and” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “or”.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prohibition of meetings on certain days.

“5. A race-meeting or a meeting for greyhound-racing shall not be held at any place on a day observed as a public holiday at that place, not being—

(a) a Saturday; or

(b) New Year’s Day, Easter Monday or Boxing Day, or a day prescribed by or under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth to be observed in lieu of any of those days.”.

3. Regulation 7of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Hours for holding meetings.

“ 7. A race at a race-meeting or at a meeting for greyhound-racing shall not commence before fifteen minutes after one o’clock in the afternoon or after fifteen minutes after five o’clock in the afternoon.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on October, 1943.

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

6066.—Price 3d. 9/11.10.1943.

Number of meetings not to be increased.

4. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the first proviso to sub-regulation (1.); and

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

“(2.) The Premier of a State may authorize any person or body of persons (not being—

(a) a person who conducts, or a body of persons which conducts, race-meetings or meetings for greyhound-racing in the metropolitan area of that State; or

(b)a person who conducts, or a body of persons which conducts, any race-meetings in any other area and to whom or which not less than four days for race-meetings have been allocated under the next succeeding regulation),

to conduct race-meetings or meetings for greyhound-racing at such places and on such dates as are specified by the Premier and it shall not be unlawful by reason only of these Regulations to conduct any race-meeting or meeting for greyhound-racing so authorized.

“(3.) The number of race-meetings or meetings for greyhound-racing which may be authorized under the last preceding sub-regulation to be held in any locality shall not exceed four in any year.”.

Particulars of racing in other States not to be published.

5. Regulation 13 of the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following provisoes and sub-regulation:—

“Provided further that nothing in this regulation shall prevent the publication in the State of Tasmania of such names and anticipations in relation to any race-meeting in the State of Victoria:

“Provided also that this regulation shall not prevent, and shall be deemed not to have prevented, the publication of such names and anticipations in a newspaper issued in the State in which the race is, or was, proposed to be held, provided that the circulation of the newspaper in any other State does not, or did not, exceed the circulation of the newspaper in that other State immediately prior to the commencement of these Regulations.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, the Australian Capital Territory shall be deemed to form part of the State of New South Wales.”.

 

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