STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 391.

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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 ninth day of September, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

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

Priority to be accorded persons requiring lodging in the Australian Capital Territory.

“69.—(1.) The Minister of State for the Interior may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient so to do in the interests of the public safety, defence of the Commonwealth, or the efficient prosecution of the war or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, by order in writing, direct the order of priority to be accorded, by any proprietor of a boarding house in the Australian Capital Territory, to persons or classes of persons requiring lodging.

“(2.) Any order under this regulation may be made so as to apply, subject to such exceptions (if any) as are specified in the order—

(a) to persons generally;

(b) to all or any persons in a particular area;

(c) to all persons included in a particular class of persons; or

(d) to any particular person.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 246, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 265, 269, 271, 278, 280, 282, 295, 353, 361, 370, 376 and 378.

6213.—Price 3d. 25/31.8.1942.

“(3.) In this regulation—

‘boarding house’ means any house, lodging house, hotel, hostel, residential flat or any other premises in which three or more persons, exclusive of the family of the owner, lessee, sub-lessee or tenant thereof, are lodged for hire or reward;

‘proprietor of a boarding house’ means owner, lessee, occupier or person having the control or management of a boarding house.”.

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