National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*
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
Dated this sixth day of June, 1944.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
H. V. EVATT
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:—
“127.—(1.) The Chairman of the Committee of the Parliament constituted in accordance with the statement of the Prime Minister made in the House of Representatives on the fourteenth day of March, 1944, to inquire into and make recommendations to the Government with respect to censorship may, by writing under his hand, summon any person to attend before the Committee at a time and place mentioned in the summons and then and there to give evidence and to produce any books, documents and writings in his custody or control which he is required by the summons to produce.
“(2.) A summons under this regulation shall be served personally or by leaving it at the usual place of abode of the person to whom it is addressed.
“(3.) The Chairman of the Committee may administer an oath or affirmation to any person appearing as a witness before the Committee, whether the witness has been summoned or appears without being summoned, and may examine the witness upon oath or affirmation.
* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to
date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote to Statutory Rules 1944, No. 2, and
3669.—PRICE 3D.
“(4.) A person served with a summons to attend before the Committee shall not fail, without reasonable excuse, to attend before the Committee or to produce any documents, books or writings in his custody or control which he was required by the summons to produce.
“(5.) In any prosecution for an offence arising under this regulation for failing without reasonable cause to produce any documents, books or writings, it shall be proved that the documents, books or writings were relevant to the inquiry.
“(6.) A person appearing as a witness before the Committee shall not refuse to be sworn or to make an affirmation or to answer any questions relevant to the inquiry put to him by the Chairman or a member of the Committee.
“(7.) A witness before the Committee shall not knowingly give false testimony in any evidence given by him to the Committee.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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