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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 361.

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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 Nineteenth day of August, 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 the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Sale, purchase, &c., of articles belonging to United States Forces prohibited.

66. “A person shall not—

(a) buy, accept as a pledge or have in his possession, without lawful authority (proof whereof shall be upon him) any article belonging to the Armed Forces of the United States of America in Australia or to any portion thereof or issued for use by those Forces or to any portion or member thereof; or

(b) having any such article in his possession without lawful authority (proof whereof shall be upon him), sell or pledge or offer to sell or pledge the article”.

 

* 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 and 295.

 

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

5916.—Price 3d 25/12.8.1942.