STATUTORY RULES
1942. No. 410
REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.
Dated this twenty-fourth day of September, 1942.
(Sgd.) GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) H. V. EVATT
For and on behalf of the Minister of
State for Defence.
NATIONAL SECURITY (WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT) REGULATIONS:
Short Title
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Security (Women’s Employment) Regulations.
Definition.
2. In these Regulations, “the Bill” means the Bill intituled A Bill for an Act to encourage and regulate the Employment of Women for the purpose of aiding the prosecution of the present war, notice in relation to the introduction of which Bill into the House of Representatives was given by the Prime Minister on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1942.
Continuance of Regulations.
3. These Regulations shall continue in force until -
(a) the Senate rejects or fails to pass the Bill, or passes it with amendments to which the House of Representatives will not agree; or
(b) the expiration of a period of one month from the date of the making of these Regulations,
whichever first happens.
Validation of decisions etc.
4. All decisions, variations and interpreations, given or made (prior to the date of the making of these Regulations) by the Women’s Employment Board constituted under the National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1942 No. 146, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942 Nos. 236, 263, 294, 381 and 393) shall, by virtue of these Regulations, have full force and effect, and all employers, employees and organizations of employees to whom any such decision, variation or interpretation relates shall comply with such obligations as are imposed on them or required of them by any such, decision, variation or interpretation.