National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 226.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this seventeenth day of September, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations.

Certain aliens exempt from Regulations.

1. Regulation 4a of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (c); and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The Minister may, by order, direct that any person or class of persons shall be exempt, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as are specified in the order, from all or any of the provisions of these Regulations, or of any order made in pursuance of these Regulations.”.

Obligation on aliens to register.

2. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) Every alien resident in Australia who—

(a) has attained, or attains, the age of sixteen years; or

(b) being a female, has acquired, or acquires, the nationality of her husband, and has not made a declaration under section 18 or 18a of the Nationality Act 1920-1936,

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, No. 95; 1940, Nos. 44, 66, 121, 172, 201 and 269; and 1941, Nos. 39, 59, 139, 170 and 175.

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shall, unless exempted or deemed to be exempted by or under these Regulations, or unless already so registered, register as an alien in accordance with these Regulations within one month after attaining that age or so acquiring that nationality, as the case may be, or within one month after the commencement of this sub-regulation, whichever is the later.

“(4.) The parent or guardian of a person specified in paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation shall cause that person to be registered as required by that sub-regulation.”.

Movements of aliens (generally).

3. Regulation 18 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “to” (last occurring).

4. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (6.) the following proviso:—

Detention orders.

“Provided that an Aliens Tribunal may consider an application which is not submitted within the prescribed time if it is satisfied that it was not practicable for the applicant to submit the application within that time and that he submitted it as soon as practicable thereafter.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.