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

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 37.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this seventeenth day of February, 1943.

 

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) JOHN J. DEDMAN

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:—

Notification of dengue fever.

“92.—(l.) Every medical practitioner shall forthwith notify, to the Chief Health Officer in the State in which the case occurs, the first case of dengue fever attended by him after the commencement of this regulation, and shall furnish with the notification such particulars of the locality in which the infection originated as are reasonably ascertainable by the medical practitioner.

“(2.) The notification shall be made by telephone or collect telegram, or, if neither of those means is available, by the most expeditious means possible.

“(3.) When, in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, a medical practitioner is required to notify a case of dengue fever, he shall thereafter, until he is notified in accordance with this regulation that reports are no longer required, furnish, once in each week, to the Chief Health Officer a statement of the number of new cases of dengue fever which he has attended during that week, or, if there are no new cases, a notification to that effect.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1942, No, 429, and see also Statutory Rules 1942. Nos. 431, 436, 438, 443, 449, 468, 469, 474, 484, 493, 495, 500, 501, 515, 517, 524 and 536; and Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 2 and 13.

 

“(4.) Upon the receipt of a notification in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, the Chief Health Officer shall forthwith notify to the Deputy Director of Medical Services at the Head-quarters of the Lines of Communication Area concerned particulars of the locality in which any case of dengue fever is first reported, and shall furnish a weekly report to that Deputy Director of Medical Services of the total number of cases of dengue fever which have been reported to him during the preceding week and the locality in which each case occurred.

“(5.) As soon as the Chief Health Officer is satisfied that it is no longer necessary to require reports from medical practitioners in any area, he shall notify the medical practitioners in that area that reports are no longer required.

“(6.) In this regulation—

‘collect telegram’ means a telegram the cost of the transmission of which is paid by the receiver;

‘the Chief Health Officer’ means—

(a) in relation to the State of New South Wales—the Director-General of Public Health;

(b)in relation to the State of Victoria—the Chief Health Officer;

(c) in relation to the State of Queensland—the Director-General of Health and Medical Services;

(d) in relation to the State of South Australia—the Chairman of the Central Board constituted under the Health Act, 1935-1936 of that State;

(e) in relation to the State of Western Australia—the Commissioner of Public Health; and

(f) in relation to the State of Tasmania—the Director of Public Health.

“(7.) This regulation shall not apply in any Territory of the Commonwealth.”.

 

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