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  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:
This Act may be cited as
the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942.
This Act shall come into
operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Sections two, three, four,
five and six of the Imperial Act entitled the Statute of Westminster,
1931
(which Act is set out in the Schedule
to this Act) are adopted and the adoption shall have effect from the
third
day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.
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