STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 115.
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 fourth day of May, 1943.
(Sgd.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) R. V. Keane.
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY (SUPPLEMENTARY) REGULATIONS.†
Regulation 74 †† of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:–
“(2.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, any person employed under the authority of the Postmaster-General may refuse to accept for transmission as a telegram any message the text of which contains or includes a Mothers’ Day greeting or felicitation.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on May, 1943.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No, 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 48, and see also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 63, 78, 86, 87, 88, 103 and 104.
†† See Statutory Rules 1942, No. 420, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 524.