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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 119.

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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 twenty-eighth day of June, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendment of National Security (General) Regulations.

Restriction orders and detention orders.

Regulation 26 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (3a.) the following proviso:—

“Provided that the Committee shall not grant leave in respect of any order made before the tenth day of June, 1940”;

(b) by inserting, after sub-regulation (3a.), the following sub-regulations:—

“(3b.) An application in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be made—

(a) in respect of an order which was made on or after the tenth day of June, 1940, and in respect of which an objection was made before the date upon which that sub-regulation came into operation—within seven days after the date upon which this sub-regulation came into operation; and

(b) in respect of any other order made on or after that date—within seven days after the date upon which this sub-regulation came into operation or the date upon which the applicant receives notice of the order, whichever is the later.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th June, 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 and 113.

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“(3c.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, an advisory committee shall not, unless the committee otherwise directs, hear any objection which is or has been made, on or after the tenth day of June, 1940, unless the objection has been made in pursuance of leave granted upon application in accordance with the provisions of this regulation”; and

(c) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (4.), before the word “manner”, the words “time within which and the”.

 

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