STATUTORY RULES.
1945. No. 147.
REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*
I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 1939-1943.
Dated this thirteenth day of September, 1945.
W. DUGAN
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. B. CHIFLEY
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†
Holidays to celebrate the victory in the Pacific War.
Regulation 118ab of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (16.) the word “or” (second and third occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “and”;
(b) by omitting from that paragraph the words “the prescribed days” (second occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “a prescribed day or on the prescribed days (as specified in the direction or requirement)”; and
(c) by inserting, after that sub-regulation, the following sub-regulation:—
“(16a) Where, because of the absence from work in any undertaking of employees of a particular class, any employee (not being an employee of that class) was absent from work in that undertaking on all working days between the tenth day of August, 1945, and V-P Day, the reference in paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation to the last working day before V-P Day shall, in relation to that employee, be construed as a reference to the tenth day of August, 1945,”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 13th September, 1945.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1944, No. 157, and see also Statutory Rules 1944, Nos. 162 and 188; and 1945, Nos. 18, 37, 47, 57, 58, 66, 67, 70, 103, 106, 109, 121, 128, 131, 134, 136 and 145.
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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