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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 255.

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 twenty-ninth day of September, 1943.

(SGD) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations,  

1. After regulation 1 of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Administration.

“1a. These Regulations shall be administered by the Minister of State for the Army.”.

Work by internees.

2. Regulation 6a of the National Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) The remuneration earned by an internee for work performed by him in pursuance of this regulation may be paid to him in canteen orders or tokens, but so that the value of any canteen orders or tokens delivered to an internee at any time together with the value of all other canteen orders and tokens at that time in his possession shall not exceed the total value of canteen orders and tokens which he is entitled to have in his possession under these Regulations or the Internment Camp Orders.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

  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; and 1943, No. 131.

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“(4.) Any pay earned by an internee and not paid to him in canteen orders or tokens under the provisions of this regulation shall be placed to the credit of his cash account.”.

Internment Camp Orders.

3. Regulation 7 of the Rational Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “money” the words “and canteen orders or tokens”.

Cash accounts.

4. Regulation 15 of the Rational Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “or earned by him during his internment”.

Property of internee.

5. Regulation 16 of the Rational Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “money” (first occurring), the words “and canteen orders or tokens”.

Issue of canteen orders or tokens.

6. Regulation 21 of the Rational Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “tokens” (first occurring), the words “(in these Regulations referred to as canteen orders or tokens)”

(b) by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (1.);

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “internee”, the words other than canteen orders or tokens issued to him as remuneration for work performed by him,”; and

(d) by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a.) The Camp Paymaster shall place to the credit of the cash account of an internee the value of any canteen orders or Tokens issued under these Regulations or the Internment Camp Orders in the possession of the internee at the time of his death or release from internment or which are taken from him for any reason without being used at a canteen.”.

Exemption from postal and railway charges.

7. Regulation 30 of the Rational Security (Internment Camps) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Letters (other than letters despatched by air mail to places outside Australia) and remittances of money or valuables and postal parcels addressed to internees from places inside or outside Australia or despatched by them to places inside or outside Australia, either directly or through the intermediary of the information bureau established in pursuance of the Prisoners of War Convention, shall be exempt from postal charges, and presents and relief in kind from places outside Australia intended for internees shall, subject to sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, be exempt from all import or other duties and from charges for carriage on railways in the Commonwealth.”.

 

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