1National Security (Employment) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 287.

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this thirteenth day of December, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

National Security (Employment) Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Security (Employment) Regulations.

Repeal.

2.—(1.) The National Security (Employment) Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1940, No. 128, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 206) are repealed.

(2.) All arrangements made or continued in force under the Regulations so repealed shall continue in force as if they had been made by the Minister in pursuance of these Regulations.

Definitions.

3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Consolidated Metal Trades Award” means the Consolidated Metal Trades Award made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (Serial No. 3417) and varied prior to the first day of May, 1940;

“Motor Body and Coach Building Award” means the Interim Award made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (Serial No. 3974) on the fifteenth day of December, 1939;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 13th December, 1940.

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“munitions of war” includes the whole or any part, of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar vehicle or engine, arms, armaments, ammunition, vehicle, bomb, torpedo, mine, weapon or device (whether actual or experimental), and any other article or material which in the opinion of the Minister, is intended for use in war; and also includes any machine, machine tool, tool, gauge, jig, die, template and mould necessary for their manufacture, production or overhaul; and

“the Minister” means the Minister of State for Munitions.

Training and employment of persons for the production of munitions or supplies.

4.—(1.) If it appears to the Minister of State for Munitions that the production of munitions of war or supplies required for the efficient prosecution of the war is likely to be seriously prejudiced by reason of a shortage of persons skilled in any particular trade, he may make such arrangements as he considers necessary for the training of a sufficient number of persons in that trade or in any branch of that trade, and for the employment in that trade, of persons so trained.