DEFENCE (CITIZEN MILITARY FORCES).
No.
2 of 1943.
An Act to
authorize the Service of Members of the Citizen Military Forces in the
Southwestern Pacific Zone for the duration of the present war.
[Assented
to 19th February, 1943.]
BE it
enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Defence
(Citizen Military Forces) Act 1943.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come into operation on the day on which
it receives the Royal Assent.
Definition.
3. In this Act “the South-Western Pacific Zone” means the area bounded
on the West by the one hundred and tenth meridian of East longitude, on the
North by the Equator and on the East by the one hundred and fifty-ninth
meridian of East longitude.
Limits
of service.
4. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Defence Act 1903-1941 or in the National
Security Act 1939-1940, any member of the Citizen Military Forces may be
required to serve in such area contained in the South-Western Pacific Zone as
is specified by proclamation, and the power to make regulations in pursuance of
those Acts, or either of them, shall extend to the making of regulations in
relation to any such member so required to serve in that area, and to the
service of the member in that area.
Duration
of Act.
5.