STATUTORY RULES.
1945. No. 205.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939–1943.*
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 National Security Act 1939–1943.
Dated this twentieth day of December, 1945.
HENRY
Governor-General.
By His Royal Highness’s Command,
E. J. HOLLOWAY
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations, †
Jurisdiction of Supreme Courts vested in Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
1. Regulation 22 of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations is repealed.
Re-transfer of certain cases transferred to Supreme Court of Papua-New Guinea.
2.—(1.) Notwithstanding the repeal of regulation 22 of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations and notwithstanding anything contained in the Papua-New Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945, every action transferred to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea by sub-section (6.) of section 16 of that Act shall, by force of this regulation, be re-transferred to, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and may be continued in, and determined by, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, as if the Papua-New Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945 had not been passed, and as if regulation 22 of the National Security (External Territories) Regulations had not been repealed.
(2.) The provisions of sub-section (7.) of section 16 of the Papua-New Guinea Provisional Administration Act 1945 shall apply in relation to every order made, judgment, decree or direction given, or act done, by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory by virtue of the last preceding sub-regulation as if made, given or done prior to the commencement of that Act.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th December, 1945.
† Statutory Rules 1942, No. 200, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 349; 1943, Nos. 139, 178 and 278; 1944, Nos. 73 and 118; and 1945, Nos. 2 and 36.
7404.—Price 3d
(3.) In this regulation, “action” includes suit, cause, matter or proceeding.
Jurisdiction of Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.
3. The Supreme Court of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea and each Judge of that Court shall have, in relation to such portions of the Territory of New Guinea as are areas to which the National Security (Emergency Control) Regulations apply, the same jurisdiction as it or he has in relation to the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.