STATUTORY RULES.
1946. No. 67.
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 third day of April, 1946.
HENRY
Governor-General.
By His Royal Highness’s Command,
J. M. FRASER
for and on behalf of the Minister
of State for Defence.
Amendments of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations.
Commencement.
1.These Regulations shall come into operation on the eighth
day of April, 1946.
Amendment of title.
2.The title to the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Co-ordination and”.
Citation.
3.Regulation 1 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Co-ordination and”.
4.Regulation 2 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted
in its stead:—
Administration.
“2.
These Regulations shall be administered by the Minister of State for Health.”.
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 4th April, 1946.
Statutory Rules 1943, No. 51, as amended
by Statutory Rules, 1943, No. 204; 1944, Nos.
24, 67 and 165; and 1945, No. 47.
2148.—Price 3d.
Repeal and saving.
5.Regulation 3 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulations
(2.) to (7.) (both inclusive) and sub-regulations (9.), (11.) and (12.); and
(b) by inserting in
sub-regulation (8.), after the word “shall”, the words “, subject to these
Regulations,”.
Parts.
6.Regulation 4 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words—
“Part II.—Medical Co-ordination and Equipment
Control Committees
“Part III.—Service in Citizen Forces
or Emergency Medical Service
“Part IV.—The Emergency Medical Service.
“Part V.—Provisions relating to
Hospitals.”
and inserting in their stead the
words—
“Part II.—Medical Equipment Control
Committee.”.
Definitions.
7.Regulation 5 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from the
definition of “authorized person” in sub-regulation (1.) the words “of the
Central Committee, of a State Committee or of the Medical Equipment Control
Committee”;
(b) by omitting from that sub-regulation
the definitions of “medical personnel”, “State Committee” and “the Central
Committee”;
(c) by omitting the
definition of “the Chairman” and inserting in its stead the following
definition:—
“the Chairman means the Chairman of
the Committee and includes the Deputy Chairman of the Committee while acting as
Chairman in accordance with these Regulations;”;
(d) by omitting the definition
of “the Emergency Medical Service”; and
(e) by inserting after that definition
the following definition:—
“‘the Committee’ means the Medical
Equipment Control Committee;”.
Heading to Part II.
8.The heading to Part II. of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Co-ordination
and Equipment Committees” and inserting in their stead the words “Equipment
Control Committee”.
Repeal of regulation 6.
9.Regulation 6 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is repealed.
Medical Equipment Control-Committee.
10.Regulation 7 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (f) of
sub-regulation (1.).
Repeal of regulation 8
11.Regulation 8 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is repealed.
12.Regulation 9 of the National Security (Medical Co-ordination
and Equipment) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in
its stead:—
Deputy Chairman of the Committee.
“9.
The Deputy Chairman of the Committee shall act as Chairman whenever so directed
in writing by the Chairman, or whenever the Chairman is unable, owing to
illness or any other reason, to perform the duties of that office, and while so
acting, shall have, and may exercise and perform, all the powers and functions
of the Chairman under these Regulations.”.
Meetings of the Committee.
13.Regulation 10 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended—
(a.) by omitting from
sub-regulation (1.) the words “any of the Committees mentioned in regulations
6, 7 and 8 of these Regulations” and inserting in their stead the words “the
Committee”;
(b) by omitting from
sub-regulation (2.) the word “Central” (wherever occurring);
(c) by omitting from
sub-regulation (3.) the words “a committee” and inserting in their stead the words
“the Committee”; and
(d) by omitting from
sub-regulation (5.) the words “a committee” and inserting in their stead the words
“the Committee”.
Quorum of the Committee.
14.Regulation 11 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “any
of the Committees mentioned in regulations 6, 7 and 8 of these Regulations” and
paragraph (a) and inserting in their stead the words “the Committee—
(a) three members shall form
a quorum;”.
Repeal of regulation 12.
15.Regulation 12 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is repealed.
Functions of Medical Equipment
Control Committee.
16.Regulation 13 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph
(b) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “of the Central Committee”.
Repeal of regulations 14 to 16.
17.Regulations 14, 15 and 16 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations are repealed.
Officers of the Committee.
18.Regulation 17 of the National Security (Medical
Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting from
sub-regulation (1.) the words “Central Committee, the Medical Equipment Control
Committee and the State Committees” and inserting in their stead the word “Committee”.
Repeal of regulations 18 to 22.
19.Regulations 18 to 22 (both inclusive) of the National
Security (Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations are repealed.
Repeal of Parts III. to V.
20.Part III., Part IV. And Part V. of the National Security
(Medical Co-ordination and Equipment) Regulations are repealed.
Control of Medical Equipment.
21.—(1.) Regulation 42 of the National Security (Medical Coordination and
Equipment) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “of the Central
Committee” (wherever occurring).
(2.)
The Control of Medical Equipment Order, as amended to the date of this
regulation, shall continue in force as if it had been made by the Chairman of
the Medical Equipment Control Committee under regulation 42 of the National
Security (Medical Equipment) Regulations, and may be revoked, amended or varied
accordingly.
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F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.