STATUTORY RULES.
1942. No. 524.
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 ninth day of December, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. P. ASHLEY
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary)
Regulations.†
Certain telegrams prohibited.
Regulation 74‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(2.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, any person employed under the authority of the Postmaster-General may, during the period commencing on the nineteenth day of December, 1942, and ending on the first day of January, 1943, refuse to accept for transmission as a telegram any message the text of which contains or includes a Christmas or New Year greeting or felicitation.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 9th December, 1942.
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 513.
‡ See Statutory Rules 1942, No. 420.
“(3.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply—
(a) to a telegram addressed to or lodged by a member of the Forces or a representative of an organization (as defined by the Post and Telegraph Rates (Defence Forces) Act 1939-1940); or
(b) to a press telegram or a broadcasting telegram or an international telegram within the meaning of the Telegraph Regulations.
“(4.) In this regulation the term ‘telegram’ has the same meaning as in the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1934.”.