STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 97
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910-1965.*
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1965.
Dated this twenty-third day of July, 1965.
HENRY ABEL SMITH
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
F. CHANEY
Minister of State for the Navy.
Amendments of the Naval Forces (Firing Areas) Regulations.†
Gunnery bombing, &c., practice areas.
1. Regulation 2 of the Naval Forces (Firing Areas) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the words “in the Naval Station defined in regulation 23 of the Naval Forces Regulations” and inserting in their stead the words “in or adjacent to Australia”; and
(b) by adding at the end of that regulation the following sub-regulation:—
“(2.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘Australia’ includes the Territories of the Commonwealth to which the Naval Defence Act 1910-1965 extends.”.
Saving.
2. An area that was, immediately before the commencement of this regulation, an area for gunnery, bombing, torpedo, mine-laying, mine-sweeping or similar practice under regulation 2 of the Naval Forces (Firing Areas) Regulations shall, upon the commencement of this regulation, be deemed to have been declared to be such an area by the Naval Board under that regulation as amended by regulation 1 of these Regulations.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29 July, 1965.
† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 49, as amended by Statutory Rules 1962, No. 67.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra
6384/65.—Price 6d. 9/15.6.1965