Repatriation (Special Areas) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 154.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) ACT 1962-1964.*

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 Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962-1964.

Dated this twenty-first day of October, 1965.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Repatriation.

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Amendments of the Repatriation (Special Areas) Regulations

1. After regulation 6 of the Repatriation (Special Areas) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Part of Malaysia, Singapore and their adjacent waters to be a special area.

“7. It is declared that, by reason of a state of disturbance in or affecting the area specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations, being an area outside Australia, that area shall be deemed to have become, on the seventh day of July, 1965, a special area for the purposes of the Act.”.

Fourth Schedule.

2. The Repatriation (Special Areas) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:—

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Regulation 7

The territory of Malaysia, the territory of Singapore and the waters adjacent to those countries (other than the part of Malaysia described in the Second Schedule to these Regulations and any land and waters forming part of the territory of Indonesia) contained within the area bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the boundary between Malaysia and Thailand with the western shore of the Malay Peninsula at high-water mark; thence proceeding in a straight line to a point 50 miles west (true) of that intersection; thence proceeding generally southerly, easterly and northerly parallel to, and at a distance of 50 miles from, the western, southern and eastern shores, respectively, of Malaysia at high-water mark to a point 50 miles east (true) of the intersection of the boundary between Malaysia and Thailand with the eastern shore of the Malay Peninsula at high-water mark; thence proceeding in a straight line to that intersection; thence proceeding along the boundary between Malaysia and Thailand to the point of commencement.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28 October, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1963, No. 44, as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 26.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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