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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 212.

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 first day of September, 1943.

(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:—

Power of port authorities to prohibit smoking, &c., on wharves.

“111.—(1.) A port authority in relation to any port may, notwithstanding anything in any law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, make orders in relation to the port for the protection from fire of any wharf, shed or place (whether the property of or under the control of the port authority or not) at or near which ships may berth in that port and shall cause to be exhibited, on or near the wharf, shed or place, a copy of any order so made.

“(2.) In this regulation “port authority” means—

(a) in relation to any port in the State of New South Wales—the Maritime Services Board of New South Wales;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,1943.

Statutory Rules, 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote  to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 48, and also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 63, 78, 86, 87, 88, 103, 104, 111, 112, 114 and 115.

8879.—Price 3d. 25/21.5.1943.

 

(b) in relation to any port in the State of Queensland—the Harbour Board constituted in relation to the port under “The Harbour Boards Acts, 1892 to 1941”, or if no such Harbour Board has been constituted, the Corporation of the Treasurer of Queensland constituted under that Act; and

(c) in relation to any other port—the authority in which is vested, under any law of the State or Territory of the Commonwealth in which the port is situated, control of any wharf in that port.”.

 

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