STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 161

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 Seventh

day of April , 1942.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State

for Defence Co-ordination.

Amendments of the National Security (Supplementary)

Regulations.†

The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Use of cattle at Werribee Farm.

“Nothing contained in section 19 of the Health Act 1935 of the State of Victoria (being Act No. 4333 of that State) shall—

(a) prevent the removal of any cattle from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Farm at Werribee in the State of Victoria, whether for the purposes of human consumption or for any other purposes whatsoever; or

(b) operate to make any authority or person guilty of an offence against, or liable to a penalty under, any law, by reason of that authority or person having permitted or suffered, or having been concerned with, any such removal.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62, 63, 72, 78, 90, 111, 125, 132, 147, 150 and 153.

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

2380.—price 3d. 25/27.3.1942.