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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 125.

 

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 sixth day of June, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

HERB. B. COLLETT

for Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Censorship.

Regulation 16 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by inserting the following sub-regulation after sub-regulation (2b.):—

“(2c.) Where a Press Censorship Authority has, in pursuance of any order relating to the censorship of newspapers or other publications, required the editor or printer or publisher of any newspaper to submit to him before printing or publication all matter intended for publication in the newspaper and a Minister is satisfied that the editor, printer or publisher has on more than one occasion—

(a) failed or refused to comply with the requirement of the Press Censorship Authority; or

(b) printed or published in the newspaper matter the printing or publication of which has been forbidden by a Press Censorship Authority,

and that the publication or continuance of the publication of the newspaper is likely to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war, the Minister may by order published in the Gazette declare that the paper is a prohibited paper, and thereupon a person shall not print, publish, issue, circulate, distribute, sell, offer for sale or display the newspaper, and all copies of the newspaper and all printing presses and types for printing and all machines intended to be used for the purpose of printing the newspaper shall be forfeited to the King for the use of the Commonwealth.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6th June, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amendment by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177; 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 45, 67, 71, 90, 91, 103, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, 191, 243, 246, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 270, and 1941, Nos. 2, 8, 9 and 40.

 

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

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