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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 486.

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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 1939-1940.

Dated this sixth day of November, 1942.

WINSTON DUGAN

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. KEANE

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

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Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Exemption from jury service.

Regulation 69a of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) The production of a certificate purporting to be signed by the employer of any person, or by a person purporting to be authorized in that behalf by the employer, certifying, in relation to the employee, the matters specified in the last preceding sub-regulation, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts specified in the certificate.

“(4.) A person shall not make, in any such certificate, any statement which is false or misleading in any particular.”.

 

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6th November, 1942.

Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended to date. For previous National Security (General) Regulations, see footnote  to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 374, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 402, 405, 448, 467 and 475.

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