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

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 70.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1946.*

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 Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946.

Dated this fourth day of June, 1947.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Disposal of unclaimed property held by Service Departments.

Regulation 142 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting, after sub-regulation (1.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(1a.) Where—

(a) whether before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation, a registered letter has been despatched to the owner of any private property held by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Army or the Department of Air requesting that owner to collect the property or to supply an address to which the property may be forwarded; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1947.

  Being the Regulations having that title under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946. The Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1948 having the corresponding title comprise Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote  to Statutory Rules 1946, No. 36, and see also Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 46, 82, 109, 132 and 156.

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(b) the owner of the property has not, within thirty days after the date of despatch of the registered letter, collected the property or supplied the address,

an authorized officer may hand the property to the Commonwealth Disposals Commission for sale or, if the property is not saleable, for disposal in such manner as the Commission determines.”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the words and figures “sub-regulation (2.) or sub-regulation (3.)” and inserting in their stead the words and figures “sub-regulations (1a.), (2.) or (3.)”.

 

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