STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 78.
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 nineteenth day of February, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
H. V. EVATT
for and on behalf of the Minister of State
for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. †
The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—
“Secrecy of proceedings of members of Parliament called together for the purpose of discussing reports in relation to the war.
37.—(1.) The proceedings at any meeting of Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives convened by the Prime Minister, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or by any or all of those persons, for the purpose of discussing in secret the present war and hearing confidential reports in relation thereto shall be kept secret.
“(2.) A person shall not divulge any information made known at any such meeting, or publish, or cause to be published, any report being, or purporting to be, a report of any such proceedings or of any portion thereof, except a report made officially by the Prime Minister.
“(3.) This regulation shall not apply to any joint meeting of Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives unless each House has carried a resolution that a joint meeting of members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives be convened for the purpose of discussing in secret the present war and hearing confidential reports in relation thereto.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th February, 1942.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200 and 223; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62, 63 and 72.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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