STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 132.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL
SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*
I,
THE DEPUTY OF 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 1939-1940.
Dated this twentieth day of May,
1943.
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the
Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendments of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations.
1. After
regulation 1 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations the
following regulation is inserted:—
Administration.
“1a. These Regulations
shall be administered by the Minister of State for the Army.”.
Definitions.
2. Regulation
2 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by
inserting in the definition of “prisoner of war”,
after the word “Australia”, the words “as a prisoner of war”.
Cash
accounts.
3. Regulation
13 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by
omitting sub-regulation (2.).
Issues
of canteen orders or tokens.
4. Regulation
20 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(3.) A person shall not,
without lawful authority (proof whereof shall lie upon him), manufacture or
cause to be manufactured, supply
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.
Statutory Rules 1941, No. 178, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 201 and
267; and 1942, Nos. 315 and 526.
308.—Price 3d.
25/29.4.1943.
or
offer to supply, deal in, or have in his possession, any order or token issued
in pursuance of this regulation, or any colourable imitation of any such order
or token.
“(4.) Nothing in this
regulation shall prevent any prisoner of war from having in his possession or
using any token issued in pursuance of this regulation or parting with the
possession of any such token to another prisoner of war in the same camp
whether for or without any consideration.”.
Pay
of prisoners of war.
5. Regulation 27 of the
National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting
sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(1.) The Minister may
make orders fixing rates of pay to be credited to prisoners of war in
accordance with the Convention or with agreements between the belligerents.”.
Exemption
from postal and railway charges.
6. Regulation 30 of the
National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by inserting in
sub-regulation (1.), after the word “Letters”, the words “(other than letters despatched by air mail to places
outside Australia)”.
Outward
letters and communications.
7. Regulation 31 of the
National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by omitting from
paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3.)
the words “letters by airmail, or”.
Death
of prisoners of war.
8. Regulation
43 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by adding
at the end thereof the words “and
a formal finding of the cause of, and the circumstances surrounding, the death
shall be recorded by the Coroner.”.
Prisoners
of war subject to military and civil law.
9. Regulation
50 of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations is amended by adding
at the end thereof the words “, deductions,
stoppages and forfeitures”.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.