STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 155.

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 mate the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this fifth day of June, 1943.

(Sgd.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) JOHN CURTIN

Minister of

State for Defence.

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

After regulation 23 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Opening and closing hours of certain establishments.

“23a.—(1.) Subject to any directions of the Prime Minister, the Premier of any State may, by order, determine the hours of opening and closing of any prescribed establishment in the State.

“(2.) An order under this regulation—

(a) shall not determine the closing hour of any shop to be at an hour later than the hour at which the shop is required, by regulation 21 of these Regulations, to be closed; and

(b) shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith in any law of the Commonwealth or of any State or in any award, order or determination of an industrial tribunal or in any industrial agreement.

“(3.) An order under this regulation—

(a) may be made so as to apply to the whole or any part of the State;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1943.

† Statutory Rules, 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 48, and also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 63, 78, 86, 87, 88, 103, 104, 111, 112, 114, 115, 138 and 144.

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(b) may be made so as to apply to all prescribed establishments, to any specified prescribed establishment or to the prescribed establishments included in any class of prescribed establishments;

(c) may fix different hours for different days of the week and for different prescribed establishments or classes of prescribed establishments;

(d) may prescribe the hours during which prescribed establishments, any specified prescribed establishment or the prescribed establishments included in any class of prescribed establishments shall remain open; and

(e) may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as are necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

“(4.) The person occupying or in charge, or in apparent occupation or charge, of any prescribed establishment shall not cause, permit or suffer the establishment to be opened or closed in contravention of any order under this regulation.

“(5.) The Prime Minister may at any time, by notice published in the Gazette, rescind any order under this regulation and, upon such publication, the order shall cease to have any force or effect.

“(6.) In this regulation ‘prescribed establishment’ means any theatre, shop, school, office, place where any trade or business is carried on or any other establishment, but does not include any office, place or establishment under the control of the Commonwealth or any factory.”.

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