{"id":"C1941L00233","name":"National Security (New Guinea Industrial Peace) Regulations","slug":"national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"233 of 1941","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":22486,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1941L00233-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"National Security (New Guinea Industrial Peace) Regulations","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1941\\. No. 233.\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.\n\nDated this Nineteenth\n\nday of September , 1941.\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n![Signature for the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination](image.001.jpeg)\n\nfor Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.\n\nNational Security (New Guinea Industrial Peace) Regulations.\n\nCitation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Security (New Guinea Industrial Peace) Regulations.\n\nDefinition.\n\n2. In these Regulations—\n\n“the Award” means the interim award which the Honourable Arthur Blakeley purported to make on the twentieth day of August, 1941, as a Conciliation Commissioner, in the matter of the New Guinea and Papuan Miners and Workers Union versus New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. and others and also the New Guinea and Papuan Miners and Workers Union versus Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited and others, as varied by the variation of that award which the Honourable Arthur Blakeley purported to make on the seventeenth day of September, 1941, as a Conciliation Commissioner.\n\nAward in gold-mining industry.\n\n3. The Award shall be binding on the parties thereto and shall have effect in all respects and be enforceable as if it were an award of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration and made by a Conciliation Commissioner appointed under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1934.\n\n\\* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.\n\nBy Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n6041.—20/17.9.1941.—Price 3d.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1778},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original purpose: giving legal force to a specific interim industrial award concerning the New Guinea gold mining industry. There is no expansion beyond validating and enforcing the Blakeley awards of August and September 1941."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 short sections total","Single defined term ('the Award') referring to specific external documents","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural steps","Simple 'deeming' provision that applies existing law (Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act) by reference"],"plain_english_summary":"These wartime regulations use emergency national‑security powers to make a specific industrial award for New Guinea gold miners legally binding—giving Commissioner Arthur Blakeley’s August/September 1941 award the same force as a decision of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.  \n\nThey directly bind the New Guinea and Papuan Miners and Workers Union and mining firms (e.g. New Guinea Goldfields Ltd, Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd) to prevent industrial disruption of strategically important wartime gold production."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations","history":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/national-security-new-guinea-industrial-peace-regulations/documents"}}