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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 169.

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 twenty-first day of August, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. 

After regulation 3 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

References in agreements to a Department, Minister, officer or body.

“4. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law, where an agreement in relation to defence is or has been entered into, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, by or on behalf of the Commonwealth and, subsequent to the date of the agreement, the functions of a Department of State of the Commonwealth in relation to the administration of matters to which the agreement relates at that date or at any date during the operation of the agreement (in this regulation referred to as “the former Department”) are allotted to another Department (in this regulation referred to as “the new Department”)—

(a)any reference in the agreement to the Minister administering the former Department shall be read as a reference to the Minister administering the new Department or to a member of the Executive Council for the time being acting for and on his behalf;

(b) any reference in the agreement to the former Department shall be read as a reference to the new Department; and

(c) any reference in the agreement to any officer or body of persons shall be read as a reference to—

(i) any other officer or body for the time being exercising the powers or performing the functions of such firstmentioned officer or body; or

(ii) such other officer or body as such lastmentioned Minister, by order, specifies.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd August, 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 151.

 

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

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