STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 5
REGULATIONS 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 Regulations
under the National Security Act 1939–1940.
Dated
this twelfth day of January, 1942.
(SGD.)
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister
of State for Defence.
—
Amendments of the National Security (Fire-arms and Explosives) Regulations.
1. After
regulation 1 of the National
Security (Fire-arms and Explosives) Regulations the following regulation is
inserted:—
Administration.
“1a. These Regulations
shall be administered by the Attorney General.”
Definitions.
2. Regulation
2 of the National Security (Fire-arms and Explosives) Regulations is amended by
inserting in paragraph (a)of the definition of “authorized person”,
after the words “Police Station”, the words “or who is performing the duties of
an authorized officer at the direction of any member so in charge ”.
Permit
to purchase fire-arms and ammunition.
3. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Firearms and
Explosives) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “subject”, the
words “, or to a member of the Defence Force or of the armed forces of any Government
which is allied or associated with His Majesty in any war in which His Majesty
is engaged,”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette
on , 1942.
Statutory Rules 1940, No. 108, as amended
by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 267, and by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 52 and 199.
Sale
of fire-arms by bona fide vendors.
4. Regulation 10 of the
National Security (Fire-arms and Explosives) Regulations is amended by omitting
the words “to a British subject who is in possession of a permit issued” and
inserting in their stead the words “to any person who is in possession of a
permit issued to him ”.
Exemption
from regulations.
5. Regulation
17 of the National Security (Fire-arms and Explosives) Regulations is amended
by inserting in paragraph (a) of
sub-regulation (1.), after the words “Defence Force”, the words “, or of the
armed forces of any Government which is allied or associated with His Majesty
in any war in which His Majesty is engaged,”.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.