National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 148.

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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 1939-1940.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of July, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. M. HUGHES

for and on behalf of Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations.

1. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Mortgage or encumbrance of land to enemy aliens forbidden.

“6. An enemy alien shall not take, and a person shall not give to an enemy alien, a mortgage or an encumbrance of any land or of a leasehold estate or interest in land under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired.”.

2. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Mortgage or encumbrance of land to certain persons forbidden without consent.

“9. A naturalized person of enemy origin or a subject of a country in enemy occupation shall not take, and a person shall not give to any such person or subject, a mortgage or encumbrance of any land or of a leasehold estate or interest in land under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired, unless the consent in writing of the Attorney-General has first been obtained.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 26th July, 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1940 No. 141.

4609.—Price 3d.

 

Transactions in declared districts forbidden without consent.

3. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is amended by omitting stub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) A person whose father is or was an enemy alien shall not take, and a person shall not give to any such person, a mortgage or encumbrance of land in any such district or of a leasehold estate or interest in land in any such district under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired, unless the consent in writing of the Attorney-General has first been obtained.”.

 

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