STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 224.

REGULATION UNDER THE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY RESEARCH ACT 1920–1939.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Science and Industry Research Act 1920–1939.

Dated this eighth day of October, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

HERBERT B. COLLETT

for Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Science and Industry Research Regulations.†

Regulation 7 of the Science and Industry Research Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Powers of Council in regard to expenditure

7. The Council shall have power to expend, at its sole discretion, from moneys standing to the credit of the Science and Industry Investigation Trust Account—

(a) sums not exceeding Two hundred pounds in each case, on any matters or subjects of investigation or on apparatus connected with any work of the Council; and

(b) sums not exceeding One thousand pounds in each case, on any matters or subjects of investigation directly associated with the defence of the Commonwealth, or on any apparatus connected therewith, referred to the Council by the Secretary, Department of Defence Co-ordination, the Secretary, Department of Supply and Development or the Secretary, Department of Munitions, as the case may be, or initiated by the Council with the approval of the Minister,

for which provision has been made in the Estimates of Expenditure which have been passed by both Houses of the Parliament.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th October, 1940.

† Statutory Rules 1926, No. 125, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 38 and 57; 1934, No. 41; 1936, No. 13: 1937, No. 3; 1938. No. 14: and 1939, Nos. 15, 45 and 83.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra,

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