National Security (Prices) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 112.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939.*

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.

Dated this Fifteenth

day of June, 1940.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendments of the National Security (Prices) Regulations. 

Advisers.

1. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “two”.

Oath of secrecy.

2. Regulation 7 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to prohibit the Commissioner, whenever he considers it necessary or desirable in the interest of justice so to do, from communicating to the Attorney-General of a State any information which has, whether before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation, come to his knowledge in consequence of his official position and which makes it appear that any person has committed, or is suspected of having committed, or is about to commit, an offence against any law of that State”

Proof of contravention of prices.

3. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) In any proceedings for a contravention or failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations or with any order made in pursuance of any of these Regulations, the averment of the prosecutor contained in the information or complaint shall be prima facie evidence of the matter or matters averred.

“(3a.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall apply to any matter so averred although—

(a) evidence in support or rebuttal of the matter averred or of any other matter is given by witnesses; or

(b) the matter averred is a mixed question of law and fact, but in that case the averment shall be prima facie evidence of the fact only”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 110, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 114, 119, 127, 152 and 166; and 1940, Nos. 12 and 33.

 

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

3732.—8/13.6.1940.—Price 3d.