National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. 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 1939-1940.

Dated this thirteenth day of May, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

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

 

Amendments of National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations.

Emergency Civil Medical Practitioner Service.

1. Regulation 4b of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (10.) all the words after the words “issued by” and inserting in their stead the words “the State Committee in the State in which he resides”; and

(b) by inserting the following sub-regulation after sub-regulation (10.):—

“(10a.) A State Committee shall, when issuing directions under sub-regulation (10.) of this regulation, have regard to any general directions issued by the Minister of State for Home Security acting upon the recommendation of the Central Committee.”.

2. After regulation 4d of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Performance of duties by members of staff of hospital, &c., uponevacuation.

“4e.—(1.) In the event of it being necessary, owing to circumstances due to the war, to evacuate the patients in any hospital, the Central Committee or a State Committee may direct that all or any members of the staff of the hospital shall accompany the patients to

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 13th May, 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 53, 196 and 247, and 1942, Nos. 107, 152, 173 and 207.

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the place to which they are removed, and shall continue to perform their respective duties at that place until such time as their services are no longer required or arrangements can be made for the performance of their duties by other persons.

(2.) Every member of the staff of any hospital shall comply with any directions issued in pursuance of this regulation which apply to him.

(3.) In this regulation—

‘hospital’ includes an institution for the treatment of mentally affected persons, and a sanatorium or convalescent home; and

‘patient’ includes an inmate.”.

Meetings of State Medical Co-ordination Committees.

3. Regulation 10a of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by adding the following sub-regulation at the end thereof:—

“(6.) At any meeting of a State Committee—

(a) four members shall constitute a quorum;

(b) the Chairman shall have a deliberative and, in the event of an equality of votes, shall also have a casting vote; and

(c) all questions before the Committee shall be decided by a majority of votes.”.

4. The following regulation is added after regulation 11 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations:—

Authentication of notices, directions and requirements.

“12.—(1.) Any notice, direction or requirement authorized by these Regulations to be given or made by the Central Committee shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of that Committee on behalf of the Committee.

(2.) Any notice, direction or requirement authorized by these Regulations to be given or made by a State Committee shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the Chairman or Executive Officer of the Committee on behalf of the Committee.

(3.) Any notice, direction or requirement purporting to have been signed—

(a) by the Chairman of the Central Committee, acting upon the recommendation of that Committee, or on behalf of that Committee; or

(b) by the Chairman or Executive Officer of a State Committee, acting upon the recommendation of the Committee, or on behalf of the Committee,

shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to have been made or given in pursuance of a resolution of the Committee.”.

 

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