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

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 62.

 

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 National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this sixth day of April, 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 the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. 

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

Power to direct execution of certain works.

“126.—(1.) Where the Governor-in-Council of a State is satisfied that the Director-General of Security has recommended that it is necessary or desirable in the interests of the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war or for securing the public safety that work specified by the Director-General should be executed in the State, upon or in the vicinity of a place so specified, for the purpose of protecting persons or property from risks arising by reason of circumstances created by the war, the Governor-in-Council may authorize a Minister of the State to direct any body or authority appointed by or under the laws of the State and having the function of executing, upon or in the vicinity of that place, works of the kind specified by the Director-General, to execute such works upon or in the vicinity of that place as the Minister of the State determines are necessary for protecting persons or property from risks arising by reason of circumstances created by the war and as he specifies in the direction, and to take all measures necessary to enable it to do so.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6th April, 1944.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126 as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1944, No. 2 and see also Statutory Rules 1944, 5, 43, 45 and 58.

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“(2.) A body or authority shall comply with every direction given to it by a Minister of the State so authorized.

“(3.) If a body or authority refuses or fails to comply with any such direction, the Governor-in-Council of the State may authorize the Minister of the State to cause the works specified in the direction to be executed and that Minister may, in his discretion and without prejudice to any other remedy cause the works to be executed and may recover the cost of so doing from the body or authority.”.

 

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