Supply and Development (Factories) Regulations 1939 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 277.

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REGULATION UNDER The Supply AND DEVELOPMENT ACTS 1939.

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 Supply and Development Acts 1939.

Dated this eleventh day of December, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Supply and Development.

 

Amendment of the Supply and Development (Factories) Regulations.

After regulation 33 of the Supply and Development (Factories) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“33.—(1.) Any person who, without lawful authority—

(a) smokes tobacco of any kind or description;

(b)is in possession of any material used or capable of being used for smoking tobacco of any kind or description;

(c) lights any fire or in any way strikes or procures any naked light or flame; or

(d)is in possession of any matches, flame lighters, candles, lamps or other articles used or capable of being used for striking or procuring a naked light or flame,

in any prohibited area in any factory shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Fifty pounds or imprisonment for three months or both.

“(2.) In this regulation, ‘prohibited area’ means any part of a factory which is declared by the Manager of the factory, by notice in writing, to be a prohibited area for the purposes of this regulation.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 98, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, No. 151; and 1940, Nos. 88 and 100.

 

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

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