National Security (War Damage to Property) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1945. No. 178.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this twentieth day of November, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

J. B. CHIFLEY

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence.

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Amendments of the National Security (War Damage to Property) Regulations. 

Commencement.

1.—(1.) Regulation 2 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-third day of February, 1942.

(2.) Regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1945.

Commission may take measures to minimize war damage.

2.After regulation 39 of the National Security (War Damage to Property) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“39a.—(1.) Where war damage occurs or has occurred to any property, and the loss in respect of that war damage has been or might be the subject of a claim for compensation under these Regulations, the Commission may take such action, and expend such moneys, as in its absolute discretion it thinks fit, for the purpose of preserving that property from any further war damage.

“(2.) The powers of the Commission under this regulation shall be additional to, and not in any way in limitation of any other powers of the Commission conferred upon it by these Regulations.”.

* Notified in the C ommonwealth Gazette on 22nd November, 1945.

  Statutory Rules 1945 No. 79 as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 222 and 294; 1943; Nos. 85, 254 and 278: and 1945, No. 4.

6035.—Price 3d.

Limits of compensation in respect of private chattels under regulation 37a.

3. Regulation 38a of the National Security (War Damage to Property); Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (3.) after the word “boat,”, the words “a refrigerator”.

Limits of compensation in respect of private chattels under regulation 37b.

4. Regulation 38b of the National Security (War Damage to Property) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “boat,”, the words “a refrigerator”.

Operation of former regulation 49.

5.The regulation formerly included in the National Security (War Damage to Property). Regulations as regulation 40 thereof shall be deemed to have had effect at all times during which it was in operation as if there had been inserted in that regulation, after the word “instrument”, the words “, a refrigerator”.

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