STATUTORY
RULES.
1941. No. 138.
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REGULATIONS
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 Regulations
under the National Security Act 1939-1940.
Dated
this eighteenth day of June, 1941
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the
Minister of
State for Defence
Co-ordination.
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National Security (Statistics) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the National Security (Statistics) Regulations.
Administration.
2. These Regulations
shall be administered by the Minister of State for Labour and National Service.
Collection
of statistics.
3. The Minister of State
for Labour and National Service may, by order published in the Gazette, require any employer, or all
employers included in a class of employers specified in the order, to fill up
and supply, not later than a date specified in the order, in accordance with
instructions contained in or accompanying a form prescribed by the order, such
particulars as are specified in that form relating to the employees of that
employer or relating in any way to their employment.
Duty
of persons to answer questions.
4. Every person shall, to
the best of his knowledge and belief, answer all questions asked him by the
Minister of State for Labour and National Service or by an officer thereto
authorized in writing by the Minister with a view of obtaining any information
required for the purposes of, or in relation to, any particulars required by an
order made under the last preceding regulation to be supplied.
False
returns.
5. A person shall not
knowingly make in any form or document filled up or supplied in pursuance of an
order made under regulation 3 of these Regulations, or in answer to any
question asked him under the authority of the last preceding regulation, any
statement which is untrue in any material particular.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette
on ,
1941.
By
Authority: L.F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
3667.—16/12.6.1941.—Price 3d