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

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 103.

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this fifty day of July, 1944.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Aliens Service) Regulations.

Definitions.

Regulation 2 of the National Security (Aliens Service) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of the definition of “enemy alien” the words “or, being stateless, at any time possessed the nationality of a State which is at war with His Majesty, but does not include a refugee alien;”; and

(b) by omitting the definition of “refugee alien” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“ ‘refugee alien’ means an alien—

(a) who has no nationality;

(b) whose nationality is uncertain; or

(c) who is an enemy alien,

and who the Attorney-General, or a person authorized by the Attorney-General to act on his behalf for the purposes of this definition, is satisfied—

(d) was forced to emigrate from enemy territory, or having at any time been resident in enemy territory, has been unable to return to enemy territory, on account of actual or threatened religious, racial or political persecution; and

(e) is opposed to the regime which forced him to emigate or rendered him unable to return;”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 39, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 86, 103, 355 and 502; 1943, Nos. 88, 108 and 167.

 

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

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