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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 172.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 1939-1940.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of July, 1941.

WAKEHURST

Deputy of the 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. 

Power of Camp Commandant to make Rules.

1. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by adding the following sub-regulation at the end thereof:—

“(2.) Copies of the Camp Rules, printed or typed in a language which the internees can understand, shall be posted at appropriate places in the camp for the information of the internees.”

Action to be taken on arrival of internee.

2. Regulation 14 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “, the Internment Camp Orders and the Camp Rules” and inserting in their stead the words “and the Internment Camp Orders”.

Interference with discipline of internees.

3. Regulation 40a of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) A person shall not, without the permission of the Camp Commandant or other person in charge of the place where the internee is detained, receive or accept from any internee or any person on behalf of any internee, or convey, transmit or deliver to or cause to be conveyed, transmitted or delivered to any internee, any letter, written matter or paper recording information by words, signs or otherwise, or any other document article or thing whatsoever.”

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th July, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 7, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 76 and 113.

 

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

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