National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 267.

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this nineteenth day of November, 1941.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendment of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations.

Outward letters and communications.

Regulation 31 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) The Minister may, from time to time, by order, fix the number of letters and postcards which prisoners of war of different categories shall be permitted to send each month. In fixing the number, the Minister shall have due regard to any reciprocal arrangements entered into by the belligerents.

“(1a.) Letters from prisoners of war shall be subject to censorship and to such restrictions and conditions as are imposed by these Regulations and the Prisoners of War Camp Orders, but shall not be delayed or withheld for disciplinary motives.

“(1b.) A prisoner of war shall not be allowed to send two letters on the same day except in cases where special circumstances exist, and then only with the permission of the Camp Commandant.”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5.) Nothing in this regulation shall affect the operation of any other law.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 201.

 

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

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