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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 138.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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-sixth day of May, 1943.

WINSTON DUGAN

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. S. COLLINGS

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:—

Inquiry as to whether order for revocation of certificate of naturalization should be made.

“102.—(1.) The Minister may appoint any person who is or has been a judge or acting judge of a Supreme Court of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth or a practising barrister or solicitor of the High Court or of the Supreme Court of a State of not less than five years’ standing to hold an inquiry, whether in respect of an individual only or of all persons included in a class of persons, for the purposes of section 12. of the Nationality Act 1920-1936, and any case referred for inquiry before any such person shall be deemed to have been referred in accordance with that section.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 26th May, 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 48; and see also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 63, 78, 86, 87, 88, 103, 104, 111, 112, 114 and 115.

2829.—Price 3d.

“(2.) A person appointed under this regulation shall have the same powers, rights and privileges as a committee appointed under section 12 of the Nationality Act 1920-1936.

“(3.) A person appointed under this regulation may be paid such fees or allowances, in respect of his services, as the Minister directs.

“(4.) In this regulation, ‘the Minister’ means the Minister of State for the Interior.”.

 

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