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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 301.

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 seventeenth day of December, 1941.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendments of the National Security (General) Regulations.

1. After regulation 59 of the National Security (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Use of land for defence purposes.

“59a. If it appears to a Minister to be necessary so to do in the interests of the public safety, the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, he may, in relation to any land, by order, direct that the land may be used for any purposes specified in the order, and that any law, regulation, rule or by-law of any State or State instrumentality (including a local governing body) which would prevent the use of that land (whether by the Commonwealth or by any person) for those purposes shall cease to apply in relation to that land, and thereupon all such laws, regulations, rules and by-laws shall cease to apply in relation to that land.”.

Billeting.

2.Regulation 78 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by inserting the following sub-regulation after sub-regulation (1.):—

“(1a.) The Minister may, in any order made under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, or by a separate order make provision for the billeting or quartering of any persons being members of the armed forces of the United Kingdom or of any of His Majesty’s Dominions or Colonies or of any Power which is allied or associated with His Majesty in any war in which His Majesty is engaged.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1939, Nos. 103, 174, 177; Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 45, 67, 71, 90, 91, 93, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, 191, 243, 246, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 270; and Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 2, 8, 9, 40, 69, 112. 116, 125, 171, 174, 179, 208, 248, 266, 268 and 274.

 

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

8146.—20/15.12.1941.—Price 3d.