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

STATUTORY RULES

1944. No. 55.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this twenty-third day of March, 1944.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Power to arrest and hold in custody certain seamen.

Regulation 51a of the Rational Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(c) refuses to perform his regular duties on board the ship on which he is under an obligation to serve or is insubordinate, wilfully disobeys a lawful command or otherwise neglects his duties; or

(d) induces or attempts to induce any other seaman to interfere in any way with the proper operation of the ship on which that other seaman is employed or has been offered or has accepted employment,”; and

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

“(7.) Where any seaman is arrested in pursuance of any order under this regulation, the person effecting the arrest shall, within one hour after effecting the arrest

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 23rd March, 1944.

1877.—Price 3d.

 

(or, if the nearest telegraph office is not then open for business, within one hour after that telegraph office becomes open for business), telegraph to the Attorney-General or to the Solicitor-General, Canberra, a report setting out—

(a) the fact of the arrest, including the name and address of the person arrested;

(b) the name of the snip on which the seaman is or was under an obligation to serve;

(c) the name and address of the agent of the ship;

(d) the person by whom the order was issued; and

(e) the place where the seaman is held in custody.

“(8.) The agent of the ship on which a seaman so arrested last served shall, immediately on the expiration of seven days after the date of the arrest and, thereafter, immediately on the expiration of each subsequent period of seven days during which the seaman is held in custody, furnish a report in writing, to the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General, Canberra, setting out the efforts made by the agent during the preceding period of seven days to enable the seaman to be released from custody.”.

 

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