STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 60.
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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council in pursuance of the powers conferred by the National Security Act 1939 and all other powers me thereunto enabling, hereby make the following Regulation.
Dated this ninth day of April, 1940.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. G. CAMERON
for and on behalf of the Minister of State
for Defence Co-ordination.
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Amendment of National Security (Apple and Pear Acquisition) Regulations.†
After regulation 26a of the National Security (Apple and Pear Acquisition) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
“26b. In any prosecution for an offence against the National Security Act 1939 relating to apples or pears, the averment of the prosecution that any apples or pears have been acquired by the Commonwealth shall be prima facie evidence of the acquisition of those apples or pears by the Commonwealth.”
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th April, 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 148, as amended by Statutory Rules Nos. 13 and 38.
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