Commonwealth legislation

Re-establishment and Employment (Licences) Regulations

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Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

20 of 1947

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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These regulations require State and Territory governments to reserve at least 50% of all new taxi and hire‑car licenses for discharged members of the Armed Forces. It affects veterans (priority access), licensing authorities (must implement the reservation), and non‑veteran applicants (reduced availability), as part of post‑World War II efforts to help returning service members find civilian employment.

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Re-establishment and Employment (Licences) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 20.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945.

Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1947.

Signature of the Administrator

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of the Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction

Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.

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Re-establishment and Employment (Licences) Regulations.

Citation.

These Regulations may be cited as the Re-establishment and Employment (Licences) Regulations.

Reservation of licences for discharged members of the Forces.

Where under any law of a State or Territory forming part of the Commonwealth provision is made for the grant of licences for the use of motor vehicles for the purpose of taxi-cabs or hire cars, not less than fifty per centum of all licences granted in any State or Territory after the commencement of these Regulations (other than grants of licences by way of renewal of existing licences) shall be granted to discharged members of the Forces.

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

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

7721.—Price 3d. 9/17.1.1947.

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