National Security (Shipping Control) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 231.

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 Seventeenth

day of September , 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of National Security (Shipping Control)

Regulations. 

After regulation 26 of the National Security (Shipping Control) Regulations the following regulations are added:—

Finance.

“27.—(1.) The Board may open and maintain one or more accounts at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and, subject to sub-regulation (5.) hereof, shall pay into such accounts all moneys received by the Board in respect of the carriage of goods and passengers on ships requisitioned under regulation 11 of these Regulations, and otherwise in the administration of these Regulations, and any moneys appropriated by the Parliament or borrowed by the Minister for use by the Board on behalf of the Commonwealth.

“(2.) Out of the moneys standing to the credit of such accounts the Board may, subject to sub-regulation (5.) hereof, defray all costs and expenses of administering these Regulations and make all payments in respect of compensation and remuneration and any other payments authorized to be made by these Regulations.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

 Statutory Rules 1941, No. 20.

5500.—22/1.9.1941.—Price 3d.

 

“(3.) The Board may from time to time withdraw from such accounts any moneys not immediately required for any of the purposes specified in the last preceding sub-regulation and may lodge those moneys on fixed deposit in the name of the Board at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for such period as the Board thinks fit.

“(4.) The Board may direct how and by what persons cheques and other instruments shall be drawn, signed, countersigned or endorsed on behalf of the Board.

“(5.) The Board may authorize any person required or authorized to act as agent for a ship which is requisitioned under regulation 11 of these Regulations, or which is otherwise under the control of the Board, to receive on behalf of the Board any moneys earned by the Board by the carriage of cargo or passengers on that ship and otherwise in the administration of these Regulations, and—

(a) to deduct therefrom any amounts payable to him under these Regulations in respect of that ship or otherwise; and

(b) to pay thereout on behalf of the Board any expenses incurred by the Board in respect of that ship.

“(6.) Any person authorized under the last preceding sub-regulation to receive moneys shall—

(a) when directed by the Board, pay to the Board the balance (if any) of the moneys received in respect of the period specified in the Board’s direction remaining after making all authorized deductions and payments in respect of that period; and

(b) present to the Board such returns and accounts as the Board directs.

“(7.) The accounts of the Board shall be subject to audit by the Auditor-General.

Arrangement with Commonwealth Bank for advances.

“28. The Minister may arrange with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for the making by that Bank of advances to the Commonwealth for use on its behalf by the Board for the purposes of these Regulations, and may guarantee to that Bank the repayment out of moneys lawfully made available by Parliament of any advances made by the Bank in pursuance of the arrangement.”.

 

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