National Security (Allied Forces) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 251.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this third day of June, 1942.

GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN CURTIN

Minister of State for Defence.

 

AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY (ALLIED FORCES) REGULATIONS. 

Law applicable to Forces of United States in Australia.

Regulation 6 of the National Security (Allied Forces) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.), the words “; or (e) be guilty of contempt of the court”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (4.), the following sub-regulation:–

“(4A.) A person shall not—

(a) give false testimony before a naval or military court of the United States of America exercising powers in pursuance of this regulations; or

(b) do any act or thing in the face of or in relation to any such naval or military court which if done in the face of or in relation to any court of the State or Territory of the Commonwealth in which the naval or military court is exercising its powers, would be punishable as contempt of court.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 4th June, 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 302, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 241.

 

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

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