DEFENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS).

No. 78 of 1950.

An Act to amend the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 16th December, 1950.]

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by virtue of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946, as subsequently amended, certain Regulations, orders and other instruments were declared to be maintained in force until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty, for the purpose of bringing about a gradual and orderly return from war conditions to conditions of peace:

And Whereas for that purpose it is desirable that certain of those Regulations, orders and other instruments should be maintained in force until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one:

And Whereas, for the further purpose of assisting to meet the increasing defence requirements and commitments of Australia as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations and of the United Nations, it is desirable that certain of those Regulations, orders and other instruments should be in force until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one:

Be it therefore enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

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1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1950.

(2.) The Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1950.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Operation of Certain Regulations.

3. Section six of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949 is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “fifty” and inserting in its stead the word “fifty-one”.

Certain instruments to be in force by virtue of this Act.

4.—(1.) The instruments to which the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1949 purported to give force or subsistence immediately before the date of commencement of this Act shall, by force of this Act, be in force or subsisting until the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.

(2.) The Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946-1950 (including the provisions of that Act relating to amendment, repeal and revocation) shall, by force of this Act, have, in relation to those instruments as in force or subsisting by force of this Act, the same operation as the corresponding provisions of the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 19-16-1949 purported to have in relation to those instruments as in force or subsisting by force of that Act.

(3.) In this section, “instruments” includes Regulations, orders, awards and determinations.