National Security (Rationing) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 132.

 

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 sixteenth day of August, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

R. V. KEANE

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (Rationing) Regulations. 

Power to obtain information.

1.Regulation 21 of the National Security (Rationing) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) The Director, Deputy Director or authorized officer may require the information to be given, or the question to be answered, either orally or in writing.

“(4.) A person shall not be obliged to answer orally any question or questions unless he has first been informed by the Director, or the Deputy Director, or the authorized officer who puts the question or questions that he is required and is obliged to answer by virtue of this regulation.”.

Proof of certain matters.

2.Regulation 37 of the National Security (Rationing) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“37. In any prosecution for a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any provision of these Regulations or of any order under these Regulations—

(a) a certificate in writing purporting to be signed by the Director stating—

(i) the names or descriptions of persons who are, or were, at any time specified in the certificate,

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th August, 1945.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 288, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 261; 1943, Nos. 88, 154 and 308; 1944, Nos. 77 and 113.

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authorized by the Commission to make or print ration documents, or ration documents of a particular type or class; and

(ii) that no other person has been so authorized;

(b) a certificate in writing purporting to be signed by the Director, or by a person who is authorized in writing by the Director to issue certificates for the purposes of this paragraph, certifying that a specified book, part of a book, coupon or document, is a ration document; or

(c) a certificate in writing, purporting to be signed by a person who is, or has been, a person authorized by the Commission to make or print ration documents of a particular type or class, to which is annexed a paper purporting to be a ration document of that type or class, and certifying that that paper is a specimen of ration documents of that type or class made or printed by that person and that that person has not made or printed any ration document of that type or class which differs in any respect from that ration document,

shall be prima facie evidence of the matter or matters stated or specified in the certificate.”.

 

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