Supply and Development (Rocket Range) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1960. No. 11.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUPPLY AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 1939-1948.*

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 Supply and Development Act 1939-1948.

Dated this 9th day of January, 1960.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Supply.

 

SUPPLY AND DEVELOPMENT (ROCKET RANGE) REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Supply and Development (Rocket Range) Regulations.

Repeal and savings.

2.—(1.) The Supply and Development (Woomera Rocket Range) Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1953, No. 18) are repealed.

(2.) A canteen established, by virtue of regulation 4 of the regulations repealed by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, for the use of persons employed in or in connexion with an undertaking established in the Woomera Rocket Range Area as defined by the Regulations so repealed and being carried on immediately before the date of commencement of these Regulations shall, from and including that date, be deemed to be a canteen established by the Minister, by virtue of these Regulations, for the use of persons employed in or in connexion with an undertaking established in the Woomera Area.

(3.) An authority given by the Minister under regulation 4 of the regulations repealed by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation and in force immediately before the date of commencement of these Regulations shall, from and including that date, be deemed to have been given under regulation 5 of these Regulations.

Definitions.

3. In these Regulations—

“the Talgarno Area” means the area of land situated in the State of Western Australia known as the Talgarno Prohibited Area, being the area described in the notice under section 6 of the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952 that was published in the Gazette on the fourth day of December, 1958;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1960.

9442/59.—Price 3d. 9/9.11.1959.

 

“the Woomera Area” means the places situated in the State of South Australia that were respectively declared to be prohibited areas by the notice under regulation 5 of the Supply and Development (Long Range Weapons) Regulations that was published in the Gazette on the fourteenth day of April, 1949, and by the notice under sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 90 of the Supply and Development Regulations that was published in the Gazette on the twentieth day of December, 1951.

Transport, &c., in the Woomera Area.

4.—(1.) A person authorized by the Minister to act under this regulation may give a direction or authority to a person (whether a member of the Defence Force or not) who is performing duties or employed in or in connexion with an undertaking established in the Woomera Area, with respect to the transport, handling, storage, testing or use, in that area, for the purposes of such an undertaking, of weapons, explosives, vehicles or other war materiel.

(2.) A direction or authority under the last preceding sub-regulation may be given to a particular person or to particular persons or to the persons included in a class of persons.

(3.) It is lawful for a person to whom a direction or authority under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation applies to comply with the direction or exercise the authority.

Canteens.

5.—(1.) Where the Minister considers it necessary so to do for the purposes of the efficient operation of an undertaking established in the Woomera Area or in the Talgarno Area, the Minister may establish, or arrange for the establishment of, a canteen for the use of persons, employed in or in connexion with such an undertaking, and may authorize the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor at such a canteen upon such terms and conditions as he thinks fit.

(2.) It is lawful to sell or supply alcoholic liquor in pursuance of an authority by the Minister under the last preceding sub-regulation.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.