AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

BUILDING OPERATIONS CONTROL ORDINANCE 1947

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 3 of 1947

	The main objects of the Building Operations Control Ordinance 1947 are:

(a)	to provide for the continuous of control of building operations by private enterprise which were introduced during the late war by the National Security (Building Operations) Regulations;

(b)	to provide for the issue of a special permit before building operations may be undertaken, applications for such purpose being considered in relation to the justification for the work at the present time of shortage of manpower and materials;

(c)	to provide suitable machinery for the exercise of the desired control and for enforcement of the provisions of the Ordinance;

(d)	to admit of the making of Regulations, if required, to extend the control in the Australian Capital Territory of building materials.

It is provided that the Ordinance shall continue in force until the 31st December, 1947, but that its operation may be continued, from time to time, by a declaration made by the Governor-General in an Order published in the Gazette.