STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 188.
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-ninth day of July, 1943.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations. †
Members of the Forces suffering from mental disorder.
Regulation 47‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting the words “Director of Medical Services, Royal Australian Air Force” and inserting in their stead the words “Director General of Medical Services, Royal Australian Air Force”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(2.) This regulation shall extend to and in relation to any person (not being a member of any arm of the forces referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation)—
(a) who is a ‘member of the Forces’ within the meaning of section 100 or section 105 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1943;
(b) who is certified by a medical officer appointed for the purposes of that Act to be suffering from mental disorder; and
(c) in respect of whom a Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation makes a request that he be received and treated in an institution.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date.
‡ See Statutory Rules 1942, No. 493.
3283.—Price 3d. 24/19.6.1943.
“(3.) The provisions of any law of a State as to the control, management and inspections of mental hospitals, the care and treatment of patients detained therein and their detention, removal, transfer, discharge or absence on trial leave, and the care, protection and management of patients’ estates shall, with such modifications, adaptations and exceptions as are necessary, apply to and in relation to any person received in an institution in accordance with this regulation:
Provided that notice of any intended removal, transfer, discharge or leave of absence on trial shall be given to the Director of Naval Medical Services, the Director General of Medical Services, Australian Military Forces, the Director General of Medical Services, Royal Australian Air Force, or the Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation for the State, as the case requires.”.
By Authority. L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.