National Security (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 50.

 

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 eighteenth day of April, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

J. M. FRASER

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Compensation Boards.

1. Regulation 60l of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a)a person who holds, or has held, office as a Police, Stipendiary or Special Magistrate, who shall be the Chairman; and”; and

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

“(6.) Where, during or after the hearing of any claim, the Chairman, or either of the other members of a Compensation Board, is unable on account of death, illness or otherwise to proceed with the hearing or determination, the remaining members may continue with the hearing and determination, or the determination, as the case may be.

“(7.) A member who has been absent during any part of the hearing of a claim shall not be eligible to take any further part in the hearing and determination of that claim.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 19th April, 1945.

Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended to date. For previous National Security (General) Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 82, and see also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 88, 99, 123, 137, 224 and 278; 1944, Nos. 9, 19, 55, 83, 113 and 131; and 1945, Nos. 20, 40 and 47.

808.—Price 3d.

“(8.) If the Minister and the claimant consent, the Chairman of a Compensation Board may sit alone for the hearing of any claim, and in any such case the determination of the Chairman shall be of the same force and effect as if it were the determination of the Board.”.

2. After regulation 60l of the National Security (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Deputies.

“60la.—(1.) The Minister may appoint a person (including a member of the Board) to be the Deputy Chairman of a Compensation Board during any absence of the Chairman.

“(2.) The Minister may appoint a person to be the Deputy of any member (other than the Chairman) of a Compensation Board during any absence of the member, or at any time when the member is acting as Deputy of the Chairman of the Board.

“(3.) A person appointed under this regulation shall, while acting as Deputy, have all the powers and perform all the functions of the member of the Board for whom he is the Deputy, and any reference in these Regulations to a member of a Board shall be read as including a reference to the Deputy of a member so acting.

“(4.) It shall not be necessary for a person appointed under this regulation to have any qualification possessed by the member of whom he is appointed to be the Deputy.”.

 

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