National Security (War Contributions) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 485.

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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 Sixth

day of November, 1942.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

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Amendment of the National Security (War Contributions) Regulations.

Powers of bodies in relation to gifts and loans.

Regulation 22 of the National Security (War Contributions) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) A body, whether corporate or unincorporate (other than a body corporate which is an authority of a State or a local authority) is hereby authorized and empowered to make a gift of moneys or goods to the Commonwealth for war purposes, to any war fund, or to any patriotic fund within the meaning of the National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regulations, notwithstanding that, apart from this regulation, the body has not, or had not, power to make such a gift.

“(1a.) A body, whether corporate or unincorporate (other than a body corporate which is an authority of a State) is hereby authorized and empowered to lend moneys to the Commonwealth for war purposes on such terms as it thinks fit, notwithstanding that, apart from this regulation, the body has not, or had not, power to lend moneys to the Commonwealth on the terms referred to.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 92, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 227 and 269.

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

7880.—Price 3d.  25/2.11.1942.