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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 185.

 

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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this sixteenth day of April, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

After regulation 31 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Further restrictions on building.

“31a.—(1.) This regulation shall apply in relation to buildings in such parts of Australia as the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, declares to be parts of Australia to which this regulation applies.

“(2.) After a date specified in an order under the last preceding sub-regulation as the date from which the order shall have effect, a person shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister, commence the erection of, or any alteration of or addition to, any building within any part of Australia to which the order relates.

“(3.) After the expiration of seven days from the date from which an order under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation has effect, a person shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister, continue the erection of, or any alteration of or addition to, any building within any part of Australia to which the order relates where the erection, alteration or addition was commenced prior to that date.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th April, 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, 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, and 161.

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“(4.) Where application is made for the consent of the Minister under this regulation, the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, grant consent, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit or refuse to grant the consent.

“(5.) Where the consent of the Minister is granted subject to conditions, a person shall comply with all such conditions as are applicable to him.

“(6.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to the erection of, alteration of or addition to any building—

(a) the cost of which is to be met, in whole or in part, out of an advance by the Commonwealth War Workers Housing Trust under paragraph (f) of regulation 21 of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations or out of moneys in respect of which a guarantee has been given by the Commonwealth War Workers Housing Trust under paragraph (g) of that regulation;

(b) the cost of which is to be met, in whole or in part, by the South Australian Housing Trust;

(c) which is to be made exclusively for the purposes of air raid precautions; or

(d) which is included in a class of buildings specified by the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, to be a class of buildings to which this regulation shall not apply.

“(7.) In this regulation ‘the Minister’ means the Minister of State for War Organization of Industry.”.

 

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