National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1947. No..

 

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1946.*

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946.

Dated this twenty sixth day of March, 1947.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State

for Post-war Reconstruction.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regulations.

Power to wind up funds no longer required.

Regulation 12 of the National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regula­tions is amended—

(a)by inserting after the words “Patriotic Funds Board” the words “or a Local Committee”;

(b)by omitting the words “or Board” and inserting in their stead the words “, Board or Local Committee”;

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following words and sub-regulations:—

“or, where the moneys remaining unexpended were raised for the benefit of persons other than members of the Defence Force or the dependants of deceased members of the Defence Force, in such manner as the Commission directs as being, in its opinion, the most appropriate available manner of disposal.

“(2.) The Commission may, by agreement with the trustees of any fund, arrange for the winding-up of the affairs of the fund and may, in any such case, give any directions which it could give in connexion with a winding-up under the last preceding sub-regulation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

Being the Regulations having that title as in force under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946. The Regulations under the National Security Act 1939–1946 having the corresponding title comprise Statutory Rules 1940, No. 131, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 176; and 1943, Nos. 160 and 278,

7969.—Price 3d. 10/4.3.1947.

 

“(3.) Where the Commission has, in pursuance of this regulation, directed that any moneys be paid to a Local Committee, the Local Committee may receive the moneys and may dispose of them in the manner directed by the Commission, and the provisions of Part X. of the Aus­tralian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations shall, subject to any such direction, apply in relation to any moneys so received by a Local Committee as if they were moneys raised by the Local Committee in pursuance of the powers conferred by sub-section (3.) of section 110 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920–1946.”.

 

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