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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 384.

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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 second day of September, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

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Amendment of National Security (Allied Works) Regulations.

The National Security (Allied Works) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulations:—

Service of notices directions, &c.

“15. Any notice, direction or requirement authorized or required to be given to or made on any person by or under these Regulations may be given or made—

(a) by causing it to be served personally on that person; or

(b) by sending it by post in a prepaid letter addressed to him at his last or usual place of abode or place of business.

Proof of notices, &c.

“16.—(1.) Any notice, requirement, direction, certificate, determination, order or other document expressed to have been given, made or issued by the Director-General or on his behalf shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to have been so given, made or issued.

“(2.) In any prosecution for a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations or of any order made thereunder, a certificate under the hand of the Director-General, or a person authorized by the Director-General to issue certificates for the purposes of this regulation, that a document annexed to the certificate

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 170.

5734.—Price 3d. 25/3.8.1942.

 

is a true copy of a notice, direction or requirement given, in accordance with regulation 15 of these Regulations, to, or made, in accordance with that regulation on, the person charged, shall be prima facie evidence of the matter so certified and, when the certificate certifies that the notice, direction or requirement was given or made in accordance with paragraph (b)of that regulation, that the original notice, requirement or direction of which the document purports to be a copy was received by the person charged at the time when it would in the ordinary course of post have arrived at the place to which it was addressed if it had been given or made on the date borne by the notice, direction or requirement.”.

 

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