STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 148.
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REGULATIONS 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 twenty-sixth day of July, 1940.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. M. HUGHES
for and on behalf of Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendments of National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations.†
1. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Mortgage or encumbrance of land to enemy aliens forbidden.
“6. An enemy alien shall not take, and a person shall not give to an enemy alien, a mortgage or an encumbrance of any land or of a leasehold estate or interest in land under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired.”.
2. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Mortgage or encumbrance of land to certain persons forbidden without consent.
“9. A naturalized person of enemy origin or a subject of a country in enemy occupation shall not take, and a person shall not give to any such person or subject, a mortgage or encumbrance of any land or of a leasehold estate or interest in land under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired, unless the consent in writing of the Attorney-General has first been obtained.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 26th July, 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1940 No. 141.
4609.—Price 3d.
Transactions in declared districts forbidden without consent.
3. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Land Transfer) Regulations is amended by omitting stub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—
“(3.) A person whose father is or was an enemy alien shall not take, and a person shall not give to any such person, a mortgage or encumbrance of land in any such district or of a leasehold estate or interest in land in any such district under a lease of which a period of more than five years is unexpired, unless the consent in writing of the Attorney-General has first been obtained.”.
By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.