STATUTORY RULES.
1946. No. 27.
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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943 *
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 1939-1943.
Dated this fifteenth day of February, 1946.
W. DUGAN
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. M. FRASER
for Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendment of the National Security (Aliens Control.) Regulations.†
Repatriation of enemy aliens after detention.
After regulation 20b of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“20c.—(1.) Any enemy alien detained under an order made under regulation 20 of these Regulations shall be liable to be repatriated pursuant to any order of the Minister of State for Immigration.
“(2.) Where the Minister has made an order under the last preceding sub-regulation for the repatriation of any enemy alien, that enemy alien shall be repatriated accordingly, and may, pending repatriation and in the course of repatriation, be kept in such custody, or be subject to such restrictions, as the Minister or a Commonwealth officer authorized by him directs.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th February, 1946.
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 88 as amended by Statutory Rules, 193, No. 95; Nos. 44, 66, 121, 159, 172, 201 and 269; 1941, Nos. 39, 59, 139, 170, 175 and 226; 1942, Nos.. 41, 274, 360, 372, 469, 496 and 508; 1943, No. 15; 1944, No. 33; and 1945, Nos. 47, 123 and 160.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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