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

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 40.

 

Regulation 13B of the National Security (General) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:-

Destruction of telegrams

“13B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 64 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934 and Article 98 of the Telegraph Regulations aannexed to the International Telecommunication Convention, any person having the custody or control of any records in relation telegrams which have been transmitted (including the originals of the telegrams) shall destroy them as follows:-†

(a) In the case of Commonwealth telegrams,.—the originals and any copies thereof (including received telegraph tape records of the telegrams)—upon the expiration of twelve months after the date of lodgment;

(b) In the case of international telegrams—

• (i)

  the originals thereof—upon the expiration of twelve months after the date of lodgment;

• (ii)

  where a telegraph tape record and a corresponding message record exists in any telegraph office, the telegraph tape record--upon the expiration of three months after the date of lodgment; and

• (iii)

  other copies—upon the expiration of twelve months, after the date of lodgment or as soon as the relative accounts are settled and any statistical work in connexion therewith is completed in accordance with the requirements of the International Telecommunication Convention and the Regulations thereunder, whichever is the earlier; and

(c) In any case in which the Postmaster-General by order requires that all such records be destroyed as are in existence at the date the order is wade--forthwith on the making of any such order.".

 

(p) Made under the National Security Act 1939-1943 on 21st March 1945; notified in the Gazette