STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 201.

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-ninth.

day of April, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary)

Regulations.†

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

Premiers of States may require local authorities to cease certain works.

“55.—(1.) The Premier of a State may, by notice in writing to an authority of that State or to a local authority in that State, direct the authority not to commence, or not to continue, any work specified in the notice.

“(2.) Where any such notice is given, the authority shall not commence or cause, suffer or permit to be commenced, or shall forthwith cause to be discontinued, as the case may be, the work so specified.

“(3.) Where any such notice is revoked, nothing in this regulation shall prevent the work specified in the notice from being commenced or continued.

“(4.) In this regulation, ‘local authority’ includes—

(a) any city, municipal, district or shire council; and

(b) any water board, electricity board, sewerage board, harbour board, transport board or roads board.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  April, 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, 153, 154, 157 and 161.

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

2837.—Price 3d. 8/17.4.1942.