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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 172.

 

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 fifth day of July, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. FORDE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. 

Assisting or harbouring absentees from the Forces without leave.

1. Regulation 67‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) In any proceedings instituted, either before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation, against any person for a breach of the provisions of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, the averment by the prosecution or the prosecuting officer that the person charged had knowledge at the time of the alleged offence that the member of the Forces in respect of whom the breach is alleged to have been committed was about to absent himself without leave or was an absentee without leave (as the case may be) shall be prima facie evidence of that knowledge.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6th July, 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 169.

‡ See Statutory Rules 1942, No 370.

1665.—Price 3d.

 

Records of war service.

2. Regulation 91* of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (10.) the figure and symbols “(2.)” and inserting in their stead the figure and symbols “(3.)”.

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

Delegation or powers of the Secretary, Department of the Army.

“106. The Secretary, Department of the Army, may delegate to any person employed in, or attached to, that Department the powers, duties and functions of his office under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1943 and the Civilian Staff Regulations, as amended for the time being, respectively, in the like manner and to the same extent as he may, under section 25 of that Act and regulation 4 of those Regulations, respectively, delegate those powers, duties and functions to a person who is an ‘officer’ within the meaning of that Act or those Regulations, as the case may be, and any delegation under this regulation may be revoked in like manner to a delegation under that section or that regulation, as the case may be.”.

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* See Statutory Rules 1943, No. 35.

 

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