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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 100.

 

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 fifteenth day of April, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

H. P. LAZZARINI

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations.

After regulation 16 of the National Security (Allied Works) Regulations the following Regulations are inserted:—

Certificate as to membership of Corps.

“16a. A certificate in writing signed by the Director-General or by any person authorized by the Director-General to give certificates under this regulation certifying that a person is, or was, at any specified time, a member of the Corps shall be prima facie evidence of the matter stated in the certificate.

Averments as to age.

“16b. In any summary prosecution for a contravention of or failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations or of any order or determination made in pursuance of any of these Regulations the averment of the prosecutor contained in the information or complaint that the defendant is, or was, at any specified time, of the age of eighteen years and upwards but under sixty years, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so averred.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th April, 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 88, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 170, 384 and 435; 1943. Nos. 77 and 97.

 

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

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