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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 266.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this nineteenth day of November, 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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Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Requisitioning of property other than land.

Regulation 57 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) An order under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the effectual operation of the order, including provisions—

(a) for requiring returns or information to be furnished by any person or class of persons in relation to any property which is or may be requisitioned by or under that order;

(b) for requiring any person or class of persons to produce any such property for examination;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174, 177; 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, 270; 1941, Nos. 2, 8, 9, 40, 69, 112, 116, 125, 171, 174, 179, 208 and 248.

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(c) for prohibiting or restricting the removal of any such property; and

(d) with a view to securing compliance with that order, for empowering persons to enter and inspect premises and any such property therein and to require facilities to be afforded to enable any such inspection to be made.”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “requisitioned by or in pursuance of” and inserting in their stead the words “produced for examination in pursuance of, or requisitioned by or in pursuance of,”.

 

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