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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 213.

 

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 seventh day of May, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Sunday entertainments.

“—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the law of any State, the Premier of the State may, to such extent as he considers desirable for the purpose of ensuring adequate recreational facilities for members of the Defence Force of the Commonwealth and members of any allied or other foreign force serving in association with that force, by order published in the Government Gazette of the State, authorize, or make provision for authorizing, the holding and conducting of public entertainments on Sundays.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62, 63, 72, 78, 90, 111, 125, 132, 147, 150, 153, 154, 157, 161, 172, 175, 185, 188, 189, 197 and 201.

3326.—Price 3d. 25/6.5.1942.

 

“(2.) Without limiting the generality of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, any such order may contain provisions relating to—

(a)the authorizing of the use of any premises or place, or class of premises or places, or the employment of any persons or class of persons, for the purposes of or for purposes incidental to any such entertainment;

(b) the nature of the entertainments which may be held or conducted;

(c) the conditions upon which the authority is, or may be, given;

(d)the charges which may be imposed in respect of entertainments authorized by or under the order;

(e) the persons or classes of persons who may be admitted to any such entertainment in the company of any member of a force specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation;

(f) the times during which such entertainments may be held;

(g)the authorizing of persons to attend any such entertainment and to remove from the premises or place where any such entertainment is being held any person who is not included in the persons who, by the terms of the order or authorization, may be admitted to the entertainment; and

(h)such incidental and supplementary matters as appear to the Premier to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order,

and any such order may be made so as to apply either throughout the State or in relation to any area or premises therein, and may make different provisions with regard to different entertainments, persons, premises or places, or classes thereof.

“(3.) No person shall be guilty of any offence or liable to any penalty by reason only of anything done or permitted by him on a Sunday in relation to any entertainment authorized by or under any order made in pursuance of this regulation, and in accordance with the conditions of the authorization, of which he would not be guilty or to which he would not be liable if the thing had been done or permitted on a day other than a Sunday.

“(4.) A person shall not fail to comply with any condition upon which authority has been given to him by or under an order made in pursuance of this regulation to hold or conduct any entertainment.

“(5.) The powers conferred by this regulation on the Premier of a State may, in relation to any Territory of the Commonwealth, be exercised by a Minister, and in the application of this regulation to any such Territory references therein to any State and the State shall be read as references to any Territory and the Territory respectively, and any reference therein to the Government Gazette of the State shall be read as a reference to the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.

“(6.) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken to authorize the Premier of any State to fix the remuneration or conditions of employment of any person in respect of any work performed on a Sunday.”.

 

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