STATUTORY RULES.
1941. No. 274.
REGULATION 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 twenty sixth day of November, 1941.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the
Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
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Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.†
After regulation 13a of the National Security (General) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Destruction of telegrams.
“13b. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 64 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934 and Article 98 of the Telegraph Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention, any person having the custody or control of any records in relation to telegrams which have been transmitted (including the originals of the telegrams) shall destroy them as follows:—
(a) In the case of Commonwealth telegrams—
(i) the originals thereof—upon the expiration of three months after the date of lodgment; and
(ii) any copies thereof (including received telegraph tape records of the telegrams)—upon the expiration of one month after the date of lodgment;
(b) In the case of international telegrams—
(i) the originals thereof—upon the expiration of three months after the date of lodgment;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174, and 177; and 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 44, 45, 67, 71, 91, 93, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 191, 243, 246, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 270; 1941, Nos. 2, 8, 9, 40, 69, 112, 116, 125, 171, 174, 179, 208 and 248.
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(ii) where a telegraph tape record and a corresponding message record exists in any telegraph office, the telegraph tape record—upon the expiration of fourteen days after the date of lodgment; and
(iii) other copies—upon the expiration of three months after the date of lodgment or as soon as the relative accounts are settled and any statistical work in connexion therewith is completed in accordance with the requirements of the International Telecommunication Convention and the Regulations thereunder, whichever is the earlier; and
(c) In any case in which the Postmaster-General by order requires that all such records be destroyed as are in existence at the date the order is made—forthwith on the making of any such order.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.