STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No 398.
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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 seventeenth day of September,
1942.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the
Minister of State for Defence.
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National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the National Security (Racing Restriction) Regulations.
Commencement.
2. These Regulations shall
come into operation on the thirtieth day of September, One thousand nine
hundred and forty-two.
Administration.
3. These Regulations shall
be administered by the Prime Minister.
Definitions.
4. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“country
area” means an area declared by the Premier of the State in which the area is
situated, by notice published in the Government Gazette of the State, to be a
country area;
“greyhound-racing”
means racing between dogs in competitive pursuit of a lure activated by
mechanical means;
“metropolitan
area” means an area declared by the Premier of the State in which the area is
situated, by notice published in the Government Gazette of the State, to be a
metropolitan area;
“race-meeting”
means any meeting at which horses, mares and geldings may compete and includes
trotting contests.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1942.
6794.—Price
3d. 6/17.9.1942.
Prohibiting
of meetings on first Saturday in each month.
5. A race-meeting or a
meeting for greyhound-racing shall not be held on the first Saturday in any
calendar month after the commencement of these Regulations.
Limitation
of number of events.
6.—(1.) Not more than
seven races or events shall be held at any race-meeting.
(2.) Not more than ten races or
events shall be held at any meeting for greyhound-racing.
Hours
of holding of meetings.
7. A race-meeting or a
meeting for greyhound-racing shall not commence earlier than fifteen minutes
before two o’clock in the afternoon nor continue later than fifteen minutes
after five o’clock in the afternoon on any day, time being reckoned according
to standard time in the capital city of the State in which the meeting is held.
Number
of meetings in country areas not to be increased.
8. In any country area
where a race-meeting or a meeting for greyhound-racing has not been conducted
on each Saturday in each month during the period commencing on the first day of
January, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two and ending on the thirtieth
day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two (in this regulation
called “the previous period”), the number of race-meetings and meetings for
greyhound-racing held in any month after the commencement of these Regulations
shall not exceed the average number of such meetings held per month during the
previous period.
Re-allocation
of racing dates.
9.—(1.) Any re-allocation
of dates for race-meetings which becomes necessary or desirable in consequence
of the reduction made in the number of race-meetings which may be held shall be
made by such authorities as in the respective States are authorized by law to
allocate dates for race-meetings in those States.
(2.) Where, in any metropolitan
area in any State, it becomes necessary by reason of these Regulations or any
order under any other regulation made under the National Security Act 1939-1940 to reduce the number of
race-meetings held in that area, the reduction shall, as between the racing
clubs to which dates for race-meetings have, under laws in force prior to the
commencement of these Regulations, been allocated, be as nearly as practicable,
one-fourth of the number of meetings so allocated.
One
race-meeting only to be held on any one day.
10. More than one
race-meeting (other than a trotting contest) and more than one trotting contest
shall not be held on any one day in each metropolitan area.
Nominations
not to be published.
11. A person shall not,
before the declaration of weights or handicaps for any race proposed to be held
at any race-meeting, publish nominations for that race.
Tips
of other newspapers not to be published.
12. A person shall not
publish in any newspaper, anticipations published in any other newspaper, of
any results of any proposed race-meeting or meeting or greyhound-racing.
Particulars
of racing in other States not to be published.
13. A person shall not
publish in any State particulars relating to the performances, form or
comparative weights of any entrant for any race proposed to be held at any
race-meeting to be held in any other State or anticipations of any results of
any such race-meeting.
Excepted
races.
14. Nothing in the last
three preceding regulations shall apply to or in respect of any race specified
in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Offences.
15.—(1.) Where any
race-meeting or meeting for greyhound-racing is held in contravention of any
provision of these Regulations, the owner or trustees of the race-course, and
the club, association or person by or on behalf of which or whom the meeting
was held and each member of the managing body of those trustees or that club or
association and any person acting at the race-meeting as starter or judge shall
be deemed to have contravened these Regulations.
(2.) It shall be a defence in any
prosecution of a person deemed to have contravened these Regulations if he
shows that the holding of the meeting in contravention of these Regulations was
without his knowledge and that he did not have reasonable means of knowing that
the meeting was being so held.
THE
SCHEDULE.
STATE OF VICTORIA.
Melbourne
Cup, Caulfield Cup, Caulfield Guineas, Oaks Stakes, Australian Cup, Newmarket
Handicap, Victoria Derby, Moonee Valley Cup, St. Leger Stakes, Williamstown
Cup, Grand National Hurdle, Grand National Steeple, Futurity Stakes and Sires
Produce Stakes.
STATE OF NEW SOUTH
WALES.
Metropolitan,
St. Leger Stakes, Sydney Cup, Champagne Stakes, Derby, Doncaster Handicap,
Villiers Stakes, Epsom Handicap, Sires Produce Stakes and Summer Cup.
STATE OF QUEENSLAND.
Queensland
Cup, Brisbane Cup, Derby Stakes, Stradbroke Handicap, Doomben Cup and Doomben
Newmarket Handicap.
STATE OF SOUTH
AUSTRALIA.
South
Australian Derby, Adelaide Cup, Adelaide Birthday Cup, Port Adelaide Cup and
Goodwood Handicap.
STATE OF WESTERN
AUSTRALIA.
Karrakatta
Plate, Perth Cup, Imperial Stakes, Derby, Kalgoorlie Cup and Railway Stakes.
STATE OF TASMANIA.
Hobart
Cup and Launceston Cup.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government
Printer, Canberra.