National Security (Contracts Adjustment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 317.

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this thirty-first day of December, 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 (Contracts Adjustment) Regulations.

Definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the National Security (Contracts Adjustment) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of the definition of “tribunal”, after the words “constituted by”, the words “a Judge or”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) A tribunal shall have jurisdiction under these Regulations notwithstanding any limitation of its jurisdiction otherwise than under these Regulations, whether the limitation is as to location, subject-matter or otherwise.”.

Manner of making application.

2. Regulation 15 of the National Security (Contracts Adjustment) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (3.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(3a.) Notwithstanding the provisions of the last preceding sub-regulation, where the matter at issue does not exceed in value Ten pounds, the true copy of the application and statutory declaration may be served on the respondent by posting them in a registered letter addressed to the respondent at his last known place of business or abode.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 65, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 98, 162, 258, 470 and 481.

 

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

6716.—Price 3d. 45/25.11.1943.