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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 277.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this tenth

 day of November, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

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

Administration.

1. Regulation 1a of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is repealed.

Places at which prisoners of war may be detained.

2. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) While a prisoner of war is proceeding to a prisoners of war camp or is being transferred from one prisoners of war camp to another, or is absent from a prisoners of war camp for the purpose of obtaining medical attention, or of performing work, he may be detained at such place as the Adjutant-General or a Camp Commandant directs, and, where the Adjutant-General or a Camp Commandant so directs by notice posted in a prominent position at that place, that place shall be deemed to be a prisoners of war camp for the purposes of these Regulations”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 201 and 267; 1942, Nos. 315 and 526; and 1943, Nos. 88 and 132.

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Prisoners of war camp Orders.

3. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “of prisoners of war in prisoners of war camps” and inserting in their stead the words “ health, sustenance, accommodation, discipline and conduct of prisoners of war”; and

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “money” the words “and canteen orders or tokens”.

Cash Accounts.

4. Regulation 13 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “or earned by him during his captivity”.

Property of prisoners of war.

5. Regulation 14 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “money” (first occurring), the words “and canteen orders or tokens”.

Smoking.

6. Regulation 16 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “or by an officer authorized by him to give approval under this regulation”.

Issue of canteen orders or tokens.

7. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “tokens” (first occurring), the words “(in these Regulations referred to as canteen orders or tokens)”;

(b) by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (1.); and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) Where canteen orders or tokens are issued to a prisoner of war, other than canteen orders or tokens issued to him as remuneration for work performed by him, the value of such canteen orders or tokens shall be debited in his Cash Account, and, if a separate bank account has been opened in his name, the amount shall be withdrawn from that account.

“(2a.) The Camp Paymaster shall place to the credit of the cash account of a prisoner of war the value of any canteen orders or tokens issued under these Regulations or the Prisoners of War Camp Orders in the possession of the prisoner of war at the time of his death or release from captivity or departure from Australia or which are taken from him for any reason without being used at a canteen”.

Employment of prisoners of war.

8. Regulation 29 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(9.) The remuneration earned by a prisoner of war for work done by him may be paid to him in canteen orders or tokens, but so that the value of any canteen orders or tokens delivered to a

prisoner of war at any time together with the value of all other canteen orders and tokens at that time in his possession shall not exceed the total value of canteen orders and tokens which he is entitled to have in his possession under these Regulations or the Prisoners of War Camp Orders.

“(10.) Any remuneration earned by a prisoner of war for work done by him and not paid to him in canteen orders or tokens under the provisions of this regulation shall be placed to the credit of his cash account”.

Exemption from postal and railway charges.

9. Regulation 30 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “places” (wherever occurring), the words “inside or”.

10. The National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 40a the following regulation:—

Ill-treatment of prisoners of war.

“40b.—(1.) A person shall not—

(a) insult or ill-treat any prisoner of war; or

(b) without lawful excuse interfere with the property of a prisoner of war.

“(2.) A person who, in pursuance of any undertaking entered into by him, uses the services of a prisoner of war shall observe the terms and conditions of his undertaking”.

Deaths of prisoners of war.

11. Regulation 43 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “held” the words “, if such an inquiry is practicable,”.

 

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