STATUTORY RULES.
1945. No. 205.
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 twentieth day of December, 1945.
HENRY
Governor-General.
By His Royal Highness’s Command,
E. J.
HOLLOWAY
for and on behalf of the
Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment
of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations,
Jurisdiction
of Supreme Courts vested in Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
1. Regulation 22 of the
National Security (External Territories) Regulations is repealed.
Re-transfer
of certain cases transferred to Supreme Court of Papua-New Guinea.
2.—(1.) Notwithstanding
the repeal of regulation 22 of the National Security (External Territories)
Regulations and notwithstanding anything contained in the Papua-New Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945, every action
transferred to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea by
sub-section (6.) of section 16 of that Act shall, by force of this regulation,
be re-transferred to, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory,
and may be continued in, and determined by, the Supreme Court of the Australian
Capital Territory, as if the Papua-New
Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945 had not been passed, and as if
regulation 22 of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations had
not been repealed.
(2.) The provisions of sub-section
(7.) of section 16 of the Papua-New
Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945 shall apply in relation to every
order made, judgment, decree or direction given, or act done, by the Supreme
Court of the Australian Capital Territory by virtue of the last preceding
sub-regulation as if made, given or done prior to the commencement of that Act.
* Notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette on 20th December, 1945.
Statutory Rules 1942, No. 200, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942,
No. 349; 1943, Nos. 139, 178 and 278; 1944, Nos. 73 and 118; and 1945, Nos. 2
and 36.
7404.—Price 3d
(3.) In this regulation, “action”
includes suit, cause, matter or proceeding.
Jurisdiction
of Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.
3. The Supreme Court of
the Territory of Papua-New Guinea and each Judge of that Court shall have, in
relation to such portions of the Territory of New Guinea as are areas to which
the National Security (Emergency Control) Regulations apply, the same jurisdiction
as it or he has in relation to the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.