STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 223.
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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.
Dated this sixteenth day of October, 1940.
(SGD.) GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of the National Security (Gifts and Loans) Regulations.†
Regulation 2 of the National Security (Gifts and Loans) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Powers of bodies in relation to gifts and loans.
“2. Every body, whether corporate or unincorporate, is hereby authorized and empowered, and shall be deemed to have been authorized and empowered at all times since the commencement of the National Security Act 1939—
(a) to make a gift of moneys to the Commonwealth for war purposes, or to any patriotic fund within the meaning of the National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regulations; and
(b) to lend moneys to the Commonwealth for war purposes on such terms as it thinks fit,
notwithstanding that, apart from this regulation, the body has not, or had not, power to make such a gift, to lend moneys to the Commonwealth, or to lend moneys to the Commonwealth on the terms referred to.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 106, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 160.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
5968.—5/23.9.1940.—Price 3d.