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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 223.

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 1939-1941.

Dated this twelfth day of September, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations. 

Property of Internee.

Regulation 16 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(4.) Where an internee owns property in any State, he may submit a request in writing to the Camp Commandant that arrangements be made for the administration of his estate during his internment by a person appointed for the purpose in that State.

(5.) The request shall forthwith be referred to the appropriate authority in the State in which the property is situated, and any Minister of State for that State may appoint a person to administer

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th September, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 7, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 70 and 113.

5795.—Price 3d.

 

the estate of the internee, and may make provision, by order, for any matters necessary in connexion with the administration of the estate, including—

(a) the payment of reasonable remuneration to the person so appointed;

(b)the payment of necessary expenses in connexion with the administration of the estate;

(c) the payment of debts due and payable by the internee;

(d)the maintenance of any dependants of the internee; and

(e) the keeping of proper accounts relating to the affairs of the estate.

(6.) If it appears to a Minister of State for any State that it is necessary in the public interest that a person should be appointed to administer the estate of any internee in that State, the Minister may appoint a person to administer the estate, notwithstanding the fact that no request has been submitted by the internee, and may make provision by order for the matters referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation.”

 

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