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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 8.

 

REGULATIONS 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 tenth day of January, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.

Exemption from service in the Citizen Forces.

Regulation 60a of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) The Minister may, by order, grant exemption from service in the Citizen Forces to—

(a) persons upon whom, or upon whose parents or dependants, the Minister is satisfied that the rendering of such service would impose great hardship; or

(b) persons who are students at a Theological College as defined by the Australian Military Regulations, or theological students as prescribed by those Regulations; or

(c) persons residing in remote localities,

for such periods, and subject to such conditions and reservations, as the Minister thinks fit.”.

“(3.) Exemptions under this regulation shall be in addition to any exemptions prescribed by section 61 of the Defence Act 1903-1939.”

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th January, 1940.

  Statutory Rules, 1939, No. 87 as amended by Statutory Rules, 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177.

 

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

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