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-third day of December, 1941.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. †
At the end of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulations are inserted :—
Control and regulation of sporting fixtures.
“26.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the law of the State, the Premier of any State may, by order published in the Government Gazette of the State, prohibit or restrict or control or regulate the holding of any race meeting for horses or dogs, or any competition connected with, or any organized meeting held for the purpose of, carrying on any athletic game or sport.
“(2.) Any order made in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation may apply generally throughout the State or in any such portion only of the State as is specified in the order, or in such places only in the State as are so specified, or to such persons only as are so specified, and shall, subject to this regulation, relate to such days of the week, or to such part of any such days, as the order specifies.
“(3.) Any prohibition, restriction, control or regulation effected by any order under this regulation may be absolute or subject to conditions.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th December, 1941.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 120, 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, 240, 206, 207, 303, 314 and 318.
8399.—Price 3d.
“(4.) A person shall not permit to be held, or organize or hold, any meeting or competition in violation of any order made under this regulation or contrary to the provisions of any such order, or knowingly take part in or attend any meeting or competition so held.
“(5.) A person who is the owner, lessee or occupier of, or who has control of, any racecourse, recreation ground or other place shall not cause, permit or suffer to be held thereon any meeting or competition in violation of, or contrary to, any order made under this regulation.
“(6.) The Minister of State for the Interior shall have, in relation to any Territory forming part of the Commonwealth, the same powers as, in relation to a State, are conferred on the Premier of the State by the foregoing provisions of this regulation, and this regulation shall apply in relation to that Territory with such alterations as are necessary.
Interpretation.
“27. Where in any regulation made under the National Security Act 1939-1940 any power is conferred on the Premier of a State, that power shall be exercisable by any Minister of State for the State for the time being acting for and on behalf of the Premier.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.