STATUTORY
RULES.
1941. No. 64.
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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 March , 1941.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for
Acting Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
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Amendments of National Security (Munitions)
Regulations.
Definitions.
1. Regulation 2 of the
National Security (Munitions) Regulations is amended by inserting in the
definition of “munitions”, after the word “machines”, the words “, vessels,
ships”.
Regulations
to be administered by Minister.
2. Regulation 4 of the
National Security (Munitions) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(d)any reference in those
regulations to an officer shall include a reference to an officer specified in
the next succeeding regulation and any reference in those regulations to an
employee shall include a reference to an employee so specified and to any person
employed under these Regulations.”.
Existing
officers and employees.
3.— (1.) Regulation 5 of
the National Security (Munitions) Regulations is repealed and the following
regulation inserted in its stead:—
“5.—(1.) A person who, immediately
prior to the commencement of these Regulations, was employed in the Department
of Supply and Development and was engaged or deemed to have been engaged in
pursuance of the Supply and Development
Acts 1939, and who is a person or one of a class of persons specified for
the purposes of this
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1941.
Statutory Rules 1940, No.
111.
1202.—8/20.3.1041.—Price 3d.
regulation
bythe Minister of State for
Munitions and the Minister of State for Supply and Development by notice in the
Gazette, shall by force of this
regulation be employed under that Act in the Department of Munitions.
“(2.) Notwithstanding anything
contained in the notice published in the Gazette
on the first day of August, 1940, under the regulation repealed by this
regulation, the persons and the persons included in the classes of persons
specified therein shall by force of this regulation be employed under the Supply and Development Acts 1939 in the
Department of Munitions and shall, at all times since the publication of that
notice be deemed to have been so employed.
“(3.) Immediately prior to the
expiration of the operation of these Regulations all persons who, at that time,
are officers or employees employed under the Supply and Development Acts 1939 in the Department of Munitions
shall by force of those Regulations become officers or employees, as the case
may be, of the Department of Supply and Development.”.
Special
powers of Director-General.
4. Regulation 8 of the
National Security (Munitions) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph
(f), after the word “account”, the
words “or write off”.
Conditions
of employment.
5. Regulation 11 of the
National Security (Munitions) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “determined
by order made by the Minister” and inserting in their stead the words “prescribed
under the Supply and Development Staff) Regulations, as amended for the time
being.”
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.