STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 323.

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-fourth day of December, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

for and on behalf of the Minister of State

for Defence Co-ordination.

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

Daylight saving.

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

“28.—(1.) In this regulation—

‘standard time’ means, in relation to any State or Territory, the standard time in that State or Territory;

‘summer time’ means, in relation to any State or Territory, the time to be observed in that State or Territory in pursuance of this regulation;

‘Territory’ means a ‘Territory being part of the Commonwealth;

‘the hour of two o’clock’ means that hour as determined by standard time.

“(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law of the Commonwealth or of any State or Territory, from the hour of two o’clock in the morning of the first day of January, 1942, until the hour of two o’clock in the morning of the last Sunday in March, 1942, summer time shall, in respect of each State and Territory, be one hour in advance of standard time.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th December, 1941.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 245 and 257; and 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318 and 320.

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“(3.) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law of the Commonwealth or of any State or Territory—

(a) whenever any expression of time occurs in any Act, State Act, Ordinance, Order in Council, proclamation, rule, regulation, by-law, order, contract (written or oral) or deed or in any other instrument whatsoever; or

(b) whenever doing or not doing anything at a certain time of day or night, or during a certain part of the day or night, has an effect in law,

that time shall, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, with respect to any period during which summer time is declared by this regulation to be in advance of standard time, be held to be summer time.

“(4.) Nothing in this regulation shall affect the use of standard time for the purposes of astronomy, meteorology or navigation, or affect the construction of any document mentioning or referring to time in connexion with any such purpose.”.

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