STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 21.
REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939–1940.*
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 National Security Act 1939–1940.
Dated this twenty-eighth day of January, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN J. DEDMAN
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†
The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—
“Restrictions on building.
31.—(1.) A person shall not, during the period beginning on the date of commencement of this regulation and ending on such date as is fixed by the Treasurer by order published in the Gazette, commence the erection of, or any alteration of or addition to, any building to which this regulation applies.
“(2.) Nothing in this regulation shall apply to an erection, alteration or addition—
(a) the cost of which is to be met, in whole or in part, out of an advance made by the Commonwealth War Workers Housing Trust under paragraph (f) of regulation 21 of the National Security (Housing of War Workers) Regulations or out of moneys in respect of which a guarantee has been given by the Commonwealth War Workers Housing Trust under paragraph (g) of that regulation; or
(b) which is to be made exclusively for the purposes of air-raid precautions.
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th January, 1942.
† Statutory Rules 1940 No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 245 and 257; and 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323.
248.—Price 3d.
“(3.) In this regulation, ‘building to which this regulation applies’ means a building which is used, or is intended to be used, exclusively or principally for the purposes of habitation and is situated, or is to be situated, within—
(a) twenty-five miles from the General Post Office at Sydney or Melbourne; or
(b) any area specified by the Treasurer by order published in the Gazette.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.