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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 249.

 

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this twenty ninth day of October, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Appointment to or enlistment in Defence Force of aliens.

1. Regulation 11 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “for service in the Australian Imperial Force” (wherever occurring).

2. After regulation 17 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulations are added:—

Protection of witnesses.

“18.—(1.) An employer shall not dismiss an employee, or injure him in his employment, or alter his position to his prejudice by reason of the circumstance that the employee has appeared as a witness or given any evidence in any proceedings before a committee, tribunal, board or other body constituted by or under any regulations made under the National Security Act 1939 or under that Act as amended.

“(2.) In any proceeding for a contravention of this regulation, if all the facts and circumstances constituting the contravention, other than the reason for the defendant’s action, are proved, it shall lie upon the defendant to prove that he was not actuated by the reason alleged in the charge.

“(3.) The Attorney-General may direct that the whole or any part of the penalty recovered in respect of the contravention may be paid to the person injured by the contravention.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126 as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; and 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 110, 150, 197, 200, 222 and

4018.—20/16.9.1941.—Price 3d.

 

Petrol for Commonwealth purposes.

“19.—(1.) A person shall not, except in the course of his duties as a Commonwealth officer or in pursuance of an agreement with the Commonwealth—

(а) have in his possession any motor spirit containing any nickel compound; or

(b) add to or mix with motor spirit any nickel compound.

“(2.) A person shall not remove any nickel compound from any motor spirit to which or with which it has been added or mixed.

“(3.) In any prosecution for stealing motor spirit belonging to the Commonwealth, proof that any motor spirit, the subject-matter of the prosecution, contains or contained any nickel compound shall be prima facie evidence that the motor spirit belongs to the Commonwealth.

“(4.) In this regulation—

‘motor spirit’ means liquid petroleum products or similar hydrocarbons distilling completely below 225° C. and suitable for use as fuel in internal combustion engines and includes motor benzole and power alcohol;

‘nickel compound’ means nickel compound soluble in motor spirit.”.

 

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