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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 66.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939.*

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

Dated this twenty-second day of April, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations.

Regulation 23 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Employment of aliens, and naturalized British subjects.

23.—(1.) Subject to any exemptions or conditions which he sees fit to grant or make, the Minister may, if he considers it necessary in the interests of the defence of the Commonwealth so to do, by Order prohibit the employment (except under the authority of a licence issued in pursuance of the order) of aliens or naturalized British subjects, or any class of aliens or naturalized British subjects, or any individual alien or naturalized British subject, in any occupation specified in the order.

(2) Where an order has been made in pursuance of this regulation—

(a) a person shall not employ any alien or naturalized British subject in contravention of the order; and

(b) an alien or naturalized British subject to whom the order applies shall not engage in any occupation specified in the Order, or offer for employment in that occupation, unless he holds a current licence issued to him in pursuance of the Order.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd April, 1940.

  Statutory Rules, 1939, No. 88 as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, No. 95; and 1940, No. 44.

 

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

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