APPROPRIATION (UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF WORKS).

No. 49 of 1931.

An Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for the purpose of Expenditure on Works to provide Relief to Persons out of Employment.

[Assented to 4th November, 1931.]

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Unemployment Relief Works) Act 1931.

Appropriation-of £250,000 for unemployment relief works.

2. There shall be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is hereby appropriated accordingly, for the purpose of expenditure on prescribed works to provide relief to persons out of employment, the sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds.

Regulations.

3. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular for prescribing the works on which moneys may be expended in pursuance of this Act.