National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 493.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this nineteenth day of November, 1942.

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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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Regulation 47 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Members of the Forces suffering from mental disorder.

“47. If the Director of Naval Medical Services, the Director-General of Medical Services, Australian Military Forces, or the Director of Medical Services, Royal Australian Air Force, or any medical officer of the naval, military or air forces, respectively, authorized in writing by one of those officers to act on his behalf for the purposes of this regulation, certifies that any member of the arm of the forces to which he belongs is suffering from mental disorder arising from wounds, shock, disease, stress, exhaustion or any other cause, and requests the person in charge of any institution for the reception, care and treatment of patients suffering from mental disorders to receive and treat the member, the member may be received and treated in that institution notwithstanding any law of a State which requires that a person shall be certified to be insane for the purpose of his reception, detention or treatment in that institution.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1942.

Statutory Rules, 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 265, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 269, 271, 278, 280, 282, 295, 353, 361, 370, 376, 378, 391, 392, 394, 396, 404, 407, 408 and 411.

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

3987—Price 3d.   22/28.9.1942.