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

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 159.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of 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 eighth day of November, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) F. M. FORDE

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations. 

Action to be taken on arrival of internee.

1. Regulation 14 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) the word “he” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “his person and all his baggage”.

2. Regulation 25a of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Compensation for loss or damage caused to property of internees during transfer.

“25a.—(1.) Where, during transfer of any internee to an internment camp or from one internment camp to another, his property is lost or damaged under circumstances involving liability for compensation on the part of the Commonwealth, the amount of that compensation shall not exceed the sum of Two pounds for loss of or damage to any one

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 7, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 76, 113, 172, 203, 223, 225 and 250; 1942, Nos. 316, 369 and 390; 1943, Nos. 131, 255; and 1944, No. 20.

447.—Price 3d. 22/26.9.1944.

article, or Ten pounds for loss of or damage to any article of baggage and the contents thereof, unless, prior to the commencement of his journey, the internee has—

(a) delivered to the Camp Commandant or some other person authorized by the Commander of the Lines of Communication Area in which the internee is present at the commencement of the journey, a written statement setting out the nature and contents of his baggage and the value of each article contained therein; and

(b) produced the contents of his baggage for inspection by the Camp Commandant or other person so authorized.

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply unless a copy of this regulation has been handed to the internee, or he has been otherwise notified of its contents, prior to the commencement of his journey.

“(3.) If the internee has, before the commencement of the journey, been in an internment camp for a period of not less than thirty days, it shall be sufficient notification to him for the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation if a copy of this regulation has, during a period of thirty days spent by him in that camp, been kept posted in some prominent place in each compound of that camp.”.

Deaths.

3. Regulation 46 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2.) the following proviso:—

“Provided that, where at any camp any personal effects (being articles of clothing or bedding) of the deceased internee are of no substantial value, the Camp Commandant may, in his discretion and in such manner as he thinks fit, after consultation with the internees’ representative at the camp, destroy or dispose of the articles or bedding.”; and

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “, other than money and jewellery,”.

 

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