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

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 72.

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 eighteenth day of February, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

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

“Emergency provisions relating to friendly societies.

35.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the law of the State, or in the constitution, laws, rules, regulations or by-laws of, or other provisions (howsoever designated) governing, any friendly society or branch thereof, the Premier of any State may, by order published in the Government Gazette of the State, make provision for and in relation to—

(a) the postponement for such period as is specified in the order, or the cancellation of the holding of any meeting or conference, or of any election, or of the making of any appointment;

(b) the continuance in any office of any friendly society or branch thereof (including membership of any committee or other body) for such period as is specified in the order of the person at any specified time holding or occupying that office;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18th February, 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 and 223; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62 and 63.

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(c) the manner in which, during the present war, the constitution, laws, rules, regulations or by-laws of, or other provisions (howsoever designated) governing, any friendly society or branch thereof may be amended or added to, or any provision thereof repealed; and

(d) the payments to be made, during the present war, to the funds of any friendly society or branch thereof by the members thereof:

Provided that an order made under this regulation shall not be effective to authorize any postponement, or the continuance in office of any person, for more than twelve months after His Majesty ceases to be engaged in war.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘friendly society’, in relation to the powers of the Premier of any State, means a society registered or incorporated under the laws of that State relating to friendly societies.

“Appointment, &c., of Ministers of Methodist Church of Australasia.

36. Notwithstanding anything contained in the laws of the Methodist Church of Australasia—

(a) any Annual Conference of that Church may, in its ministerial session—

(i) appoint a Minister of the Church or a Probationer to a Circuit, Circuit-Mission or Home-Mission Station in connexion with the Annual Conference; or

(ii) continue a Minister of the Church or Probationer in the appointment held by him in connexion with that Annual Conference at the date of the ministerial session of the Annual Conference,

for such period as the Annual Conference determines:

Provided that a Minister of the Church or a Probationer so appointed, or continued in his appointment, shall not, by reason of the exercise of the powers contained in this regulation, hold the appointment or be continued in his appointment for more than twelve months after the thirty-first day of March next succeeding the date of the termination of the war; and

(b) during the intervals between meetings of any Annual Conference, the President of the Annual Conference may, with the consent of the majority of the ministerial members of the Standing Committee of the Annual Conference present at the meeting of the Standing Committee at which the matter is determined, transfer a Minister of the Church or a Probationer from one appointment to another, and a Minister of the Church so transferred shall, while he holds that other appointment, but not in any event for more than twelve months after the thirty-first day of March next succeeding the date of the termination of the war if the Standing Committee so determines, be deemed to be Superintendent of the Circuit, Circuit-Mission or Home-Mission Station to which he is transferred.”.

 

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