National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 411.

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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-fourth day of September, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. B. CHIFLEY

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

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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

After regulation 72 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is added:—

Minimum charge for admission to entertainments.

“73.—(1.) Where—

(a) on the fourth day of September, 1942; or

(b) if the proprietor did not hold an entertainment on that date, on the last day preceding that date on which he held an entertainment,

the payment for admission to any entertainment, or to any place or part of any place where the entertainment was held, or for the right to participate in any entertainment (excluding the amount of any entertainments tax imposed by or under any law of a State), was One shilling, the proprietor of the entertainment shall not, without the previous consent in writing of the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, admit any person to any entertainment of the same character, or to any such place or part of any such place where any entertainment is being or is to be held, or give to any person any such right to participate in the entertainment, as the case may be, for a payment of less than One shilling.

“(2.) In this regulation—

‘entertainment’ includes any exhibition, performance, lecture, amusement, game, sport or exercise;

‘proprietor’, in relation to any entertainment, includes any person responsible for the management thereof.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th September, 1942.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 246, and see also