STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 57.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1946.*

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 Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946.

Dated this twenty-first day of May, 1947.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.

Amendment of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations.†

Altered rates permissible in certain cases.

Regulation 18 of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.), after the word “index-number” (third occurring), the words “, the proportion being expressed as a percentage calculated to the nearest whole number”; and

(b) by inserting in sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.), after the word “week”, the words “or, in the case of a rate expressed in relation to a period longer than a week, an amount calculated at the rate of Eight pounds per year”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st May, 1947.

† Being the Regulations having that title as in force under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946, as amended by Statutory Rules 1947, Nos. 32, 43 and 49. The Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1946 having the corresponding title comprise Statutory Rules 1942, No. 76, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 81, 110, 127, 145, 160, 218, 221, 224, 248, 257, 293, 316, 332, 344, 425, 458, 490, 537 and 539; 1943, Nos. 21, 60, 76, 142, 190 and 278; 1944, Nos. 52, 83, 99 and 148; 1945, Nos. 11, 14, 45, 71, 91, 116 and 189; and 1946, Nos. 61, 63, 184, 192, 196 and 197.

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

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