National Security (War Service Moratorium) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 208.

 

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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this sixth day of May, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendment of the National Security (War Service Moratorium) Regulations.  

Protection of certain goods from distress, &c.

Regulation 16 of the National Security (War Service Moratorium) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(7.) Any such order providing for the payment of the value of any goods may be enforced in the same manner as an order or judgment for the payment or recovery of money made by the court in the exercise of its civil jurisdiction.

“(8.) Where any such order provides for the return of any goods, any constable may take possession of the goods and return them to the person to whom the court directed them to be returned, and for that purpose may, and if need be by force and with such assistance as is necessary, break open, enter and search any premises in which he has reason to believe or suspects the goods to be.

“(9.) A person shall not hinder or obstruct any constable in the exercise of his powers under the last preceding sub-regulation.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 61, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 85, 134 and 263; and 1942, No. 73.

 

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

2261.—Price 3d. 6/24.3.1942.