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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 394.

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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 tenth day of September, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

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Amendment of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Closing hours of shops.

Regulation 21‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(8.) Where an act or omission constitutes a contravention of this regulation, and would, but for this regulation, constitute an offence under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, then nothing in this regulation shall prevent the offender being prosecuted and punished under the law of the State or Territory, but the offender shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.”.

 

* 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. 246, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 265, 269, 271, 278, 280, 282, 295, 353, 361, 370, 376 and 378.

‡ Statutory Rules 1941, No. 297, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 132.

 

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

6502.—Price 3d. 25/8.9.1942.