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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 90.

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939.*

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.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellence’s Command,

H. S. GULLETT

for Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of National Security (General) Regulations. 

After regulation 17a of the National Security (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted—

Prohibited papers.

“17 b.—(1.) Where a Minister is satisfied that a paper is issued, or intended to be issued, by, for or on behalf of; or in the interests

of—

(a) the association known as the Communist Party of Australia; or

(b) any association which, in the opinion of a Minister, has substantially the same objects as that Party; or

(c) any person or association who or which, in the opinion of a Minister, is acting for or on behalf of, or in the interests of, any association specified in either of the last two preceding paragraphs,

and that the publication, or continuance of the publication, of the paper is likely to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war, he 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 paper, and all copies of the paper, and all printing presses, and types for printing, and all machines, appliances, equipment and materials whatsoever, used or intended to be used for the purpose of printing the paper shall be forfeited to the King for the use of the Commonwealth.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th May, 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939. No, 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939; Nos.103, 174 and 177; and 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 35, 67 and 71.

3213.—Price 3d.

 

“(2.) Where any person prints, publishes, issues, circulates, distributes, sells, offers for sale or displays any paper declared by any order made in pursuance of this regulation to be a prohibited paper, every person who is a member of the executive or managing body of any association specified in the order or an officer of that association shall be deemed to have contravened the provisions of this regulation, unless he proves that the printing, publication, issue, circulation, distribution, sale, offer for sale or display was done or made without his knowledge, or that he used all due diligence to prevent it.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, the term ‘paper’ means book, periodical, pamphlet, handbill, dodger, poster or newspaper.”.

 

ByAuthority: L. F. Johnston,