STATUTORY RULES.
1953 No. 18.
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REGULATIONS
UNDER THE SUPPLY ANDDEVELOPMENT 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
twenty-seventh day of February, 1953.
W.
J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for
Supply.
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Supply
and Development (Woomera Rocket Range) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Supply and Development (Woomera Rocket Range) Regulations.
Definition.
2. In these Regulations, “the
Woomera Rocket Range Area” means the areas of land in the State of South
Australia described in the declaration 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 in the declaration 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 Rocket
Range area.
3.—(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 Rocket Range 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.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1953
1603.—Price
3d. 9/16.9.1952.
Canteens.
4.—(1.)
Where he considers it necessary so to do for the purposes of the efficient
operation of an undertaking established in the Woomera Rocket Range 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.
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.