STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 438.
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 fourteenth day of October, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
H. V. EVATT
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†
Power of State Premiers to control sale of liquor.
Regulation 45 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (7) the following sub-regulation:—
“(7a.) In any prosecution for a contravention of, or failure to comply with, any of the provisions of an order made under this regulation, the averment of the prosecutor that any liquor is intoxicating liquor shall be prima facie evidence of the matter averred.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th October, 1942.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations) see footnote to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 429 and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 431 and 436.