National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 70.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this tenth day of April, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

E. M. FORDE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendments of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations. 

Internees’ representatives.

1.Regulation 13 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “(other than censorship)”.

Outward letters and communications.

2.Regulation 31 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) Subject to such restrictions and conditions as are imposed by these Regulations and the Internment Camp Orders, an internee shall be allowed to send two letters or postcards in each week:

Provided that an internee shall not be allowed to send two letters on the same day except in cases where special circumstances exist and then only with the permission of the Camp Commandant.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th April, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No.7, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos.70, 113, 172, 203, 223, 225 and 250; 1942, Nos. 316, 369 and 390; 1943, Nos. 131 and 265; and 1944, Nos. 20 and 159.

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“(2.) The Internment Camp Orders may prescribe conditions as to the length of letters sent by internees and the stationery to be used”; and

(b) by omitting from the proviso to paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3.) the words “and shall be subject to censorship”.

Censorship of letters and parcels.

3.Regulation 33 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.)

Local examination of letters, &c.

4.Regulation 34 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “In addition to censorship by the Post and Telegraph Censorship Authority, the” and inserting in their stead the word “The”.

Inward letters.

5.Regulation 35 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “censorship, and to”.

Letters, &c., where internees are in civil or military hospitals.

6.Regulation 38 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) and inserting in their stead the following word and paragraph:—

“and

(b) if the Camp Commandant considers it necessary, all letters, postcards and parcels dispatched by, or addressed to, the internee are sent to the camp for examination.”.

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