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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 15.

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 fourteenth day of January, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations.

Lost or destroyed certificates.

1. Regulation 9aof the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (4.) the words “An aliens registration officer may remit the payment of the fee prescribed by this sub-regulation in any case where he is satisfied that it would be inequitable to require the payment.”.

Enemy alien not to change abode without permission.

2. Regulation 17 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2.) the words “or such other area as the Deputy Director of Security in the State concerned determines.”.

Detention orders.

3. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (9b.) the words “to the Minister”; and

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (12.) after the word “Minister” (second occurring), the words or to a person authorized by the Minister to deal with references under this sub-regulation,”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, No. 95; 1940, Nos. 44, 66, 121, 159, 172, 201 and 269; 1941, Nos. 39, 59, 139, 170, 175 and 226; and 1942, Nos. 41, 274, 360, 372, 400, 406 and 503.

 

4. After regulation 25 of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Declarations under section 18A of Nationality Act to be registered.

“25a.—(1.) Any declaration made after the commencement of this regulation by a woman under section 18a of the Nationality Act 1920–1936 that she desires to retain while in Australia or any Territory the rights of a British subject shall be of no effect until it has been registered in the manner prescribed by regulation 18 of the Naturalization Regulations.

“(2.) The Minister may, in his absolute discretion, direct that any such declaration shall not be registered.

“(3.) Where he is satisfied that it is desirable in the public interest so to do, the Minister may cancel the registration of any such declaration.

“(4.) Any such cancellation shall have effect on and from such date as the Minister directs and, after the cancellation comes into effect, the rights, powers, privileges and status of the woman who made the declaration shall be the same as if the declaration had not been made.

“(5.) Upon the cancellation of a declaration under sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, the person in possession of any certified copy of the declaration shall forthwith deliver that copy to the Minister.

“(6.) In this regulation ‘the Minister’ means the Minister of State for the Interior.”.

 

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