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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 175.

 

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 fifteenth day of April, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN A. BEASLEY

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

 

Amendment of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. 

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

Powers of attorney executed by members of the Forces under 21 years.

“52.—(1.) A power of attorney executed, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, by a person under the age of twenty-one years who was or is, at the time of the execution, or became or becomes, after that time and before he attained or attains the age of twenty-one years, a member of the Defence Force engaged on war service shall, after the commencement of this regulation or the attainment by that person of the age of twenty-one years, whichever is the later, be and continue as valid and effectual (notwithstanding that that person may have ceased to be a member of the Defence Force engaged on war service) as if that person had, at the time of the execution of the power, been of the full age of twenty-one years.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) the revocation by a person under the age of twenty-one years of a power of attorney shall be as valid and effectual as if that person had, at the time of the revocation, been of the full age of twenty-one years; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th April, 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 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, 50, 57, 62, 63, 72, 78, 90, 111, 125, 132, 147, 150, 153, 154, 157, 161 and 172.

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(b) a statutory declaration by the donee of a power, made in accordance with the law of the Commonwealth or of any State or Territory of the Commonwealth, that the donor of the power was, at the time of its execution, or became, after that time and before he attained the age of twenty-one years, a member of the Defence Force engaged on war service shall be taken as conclusive proof of the facts so declared in favour of any person dealing with the donee of the power in good faith.”.

 

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