STATUTORY RULES.
1939. No. 118.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939.
Dated this eleventh day of October, 1939.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for Minister of State for Defence.
Amendments of The National Security (Fair Rents) Regulations. †
Rent not to be increased in certain cases.
1. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Fair Rents) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “State” (third occurring), the words “, or any dwelling-house or shop in that State comprised in any class of dwelling-houses or shops specified in the Proclamation,”.
Fair Rents Boards.
2. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Fair Rents) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(1a.) Each Fair Rents Board shall have such powers as are conferred upon it by these Regulations, and may exercise those powers—
(a) in relation to all dwelling-houses and shops in the State in which the Board is constituted; or
(b) where the Governor in Council of a State certifies by notice published in the Government Gazette of the State, that it is desirable that the powers of a Board constituted in that State shall be exercisable with respect to certain dwelling-houses or shops only, or with respect to at limited class of dwelling-houses or shops only—in relation to those dwelling-houses or shops only or to that limited class of dwelling-houses or shops only.”.
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on October, 1939.
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 104.
6004.—8/10.10.1939.—Price 3d.
Determination of fair rents.
3. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Fair Rents) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) all the words from and including the words “The lessor” to and including the words “under the lease” and inserting in their stead the words “The lessor, or a lessee who has paid or tendered all rent due and payable under the lease, of a dwelling-house or shop (not being a dwelling-house or shop in relation to which a Fair Rents Board is not authorized to exercise the powers conferred by these Regulations)”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.