SHELTER REGULATIONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 4

SHELTER REGULATIONS

IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS CONTAINED IN GAZETTE. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Important amendments to the Emergency Shelter Regulations were announced last evening by the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple. He said that when the regulations were enacted it was realised that further nowers would be required from time to time. A brief experience of the operation of the existing powers quickly showed that clarification and amplification were needed. The regulations, which were gazetted yesterday, contained the following new provisions:— Provision is made for composite types of shelter—the combination of public shelter and business premises shelter. The original definition of business premises is retained as a building oi a group of buildings (having the same occupier) in which more than 30 persons work or reside. A new provision enables E.P.S. authorities to require owners of business premises, which are not suitable for shelter, to contribute to the cost of shelter in other premises or to a public shelter for their own staffs or for persons resident on the premises. Another provision enables E.P.S. authorities to arrange with owners of premises, other than business premises, for the construction of shelters on the same basis as that which applies to business premises. Local authorities which have incurred expenditure for shelter purposes are empowered to recoup themselves from loan money.

Any local authority or emergency precautions service may require action to be taken to prevent injury to persons from flying glass. Those powers may not be exercised without the prior approval of the Minister, who may in any case direct such action to be taken.