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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 269

 

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 June, 1942.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

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

“Unauthorized use of certain words, &c., prohibited.

61.—(1.) Where the Attorney-General is satisfied that the prohibition of the assumption or use, except with the consent in writing of a Minister, of any word or group of letters in connexion with any trade, business, calling, profession, organization or body of persons is necessary for securing the defence of the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth, he may, by order specify that word or group of letters to be a word, or group of letters to which this regulation applies.

“(2.) A person shall not, except with the consent in writing of a Minister, assume or use, in connexion with any trade, business, calling, profession, organization or body of persons any word or group of letters so specified.

“Certain matters not to be registered as trade marks or designs.

62.—(1.) The Registrar of Trade Marks may refuse to register any trade mark which contains—

(a) any word or group of letters specified in pursuance of the last preceding regulation; or

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245, 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40 and  .

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(b) any representation of any badge or emblem to which this regulation applies,

or any mark so nearly resembling any such word, badge or emblem as to be likely to deceive.

“(2.) The Registrar of Designs may refuse to register any design which consists of, embodies or contains—

(a) any representation of—

(i) the King, the Queen, or any member of the Royal Family;

(ii) the Royal arms, crests, armorial bearings, insignia or devices, or arms, crests, armorial bearings, insignia or devices so nearly resembling them as to be likely to be taken therefor, or of the Royal crowns or of the British national flags, or the word ‘Royal’, or any other words, letters or devices likely to lead persons to think that the applicant had royal or government patronage or authorization;

(iii) the arms, flags or seal of the Commonwealth or of any State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

(iv) the armorial bearings, flags, state emblems, or signs of any country other than the Commonwealth; or

(v) the arms or emblems of any city or town in the Commonwealth or of any State or Public Authority or public institution,

or of any matter so nearly resembling any such matter as to be likely to deceive;

(b) any word or group of letters specified in pursuance of the last preceding regulation, or any word so nearly resembling any such word as to be likely to deceive; or

(c) any representation, of any badge or emblem to which this regulation applies, or of any badge or emblem so nearly resembling any such badge or emblem as to be likely to deceive.

“(3.) In this regulation—

‘badge’ includes order, decoration and modal and the ribbon thereof;

‘badge or emblem to which this regulation applies’ means any badge or emblem supplied or authorized by any Commonwealth or State Government Department or any local or public authority for any purpose directly or indirectly connected with defence measures, and includes such other badges and emblems as the Attorney-General, by order published in the Gazette, specifies;

‘emblem’ includes a regimental or other distinctive mark and an armlet.”.

 

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