Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts
WHEREAS certain legal difficulties exist which have created doubts
and caused delays in relation to certain Commonwealth legislation, and to
certain regulations made thereunder, particularly in relation to the
legislation enacted, and regulations made, for securing the public safety and
defence of the Commonwealth of Australia, and for the more effectual
prosecution of the war in which His Majesty the King is engaged:
AND WHEREAS
those legal difficulties will be removed by the adoption by the Parliament of
the Commonwealth of Australia of sections two, three, four, five and six of
the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and by making such adoption have effect as
from the commencement of the war between His Majesty the King and Germany:
BE
it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows: