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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 262.

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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 1939-4940.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of National Security (General) Regulations.

1. Regulation 26 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (8.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(8a.) The Minister may at any time order that any person, who has been sent to Australia for internment in Australia in accordance with, arrangements entered into by the Government of the Commonwealth and the Government of the United Kingdom or of any other part of His Majesty’s dominions, be sent to the United Kingdom or to any other part of His Majesty’s dominions, and that person shall, as soon as practicable, be sent to the United Kingdom or to the part of His Majesty’s dominions specified in the Order.”

2. Regulation 79 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended:—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word

“search”, the words “and seizure”; and

(b)by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the word “issued”, the words “or order made”.

 

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th November, 1940.

 Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177; and 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 44, 45, 67, 71, 91, 93, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, and 191.

 

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

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