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

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No.152.

REGULATION 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 a following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939.

Dated this sixteenth day of November 1939.

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command.

for Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECOURITY (PRICES) REGULATIONS. 

After regulation 7 for the National Security (Prices)

Regulations, the following regulations is inserted:–

The Minister, Commissioner, etc., not compellable witnesses.

“7a. The Minister or the Commissioner, or a person who is or has been Deputy Commissioner, or an adviser shall not be a compellable witness in any proceedings against any person for contravening or falling to comply with –

(a) any provision of these Regulation; or

(b) any provision of the Defence (National Security – General) Regulations, or any provision of any order made in pursuance of any provision of those Regulations, regulating the sale or purchase of any articles or controlling the prices at which articles may be sold”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 110, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 114, 119 and 127.