STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 227.
REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.
Dated this twenty-first day of October, 1940.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. G. CAMERON
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of National Security (Wool) Regulations.†
Central Wool Committee.
1. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Wool) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “Executive Member”, the words “, who shall act as Chairman in the absence of the Chairman,”;
(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(1a.) The Governor-General may appoint a Justice of the High Court of Australia to serve as Chairman.”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the word “The” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to sub-regulation (1a.), the”.
Remuneration.
2. Regulation 7 of the National Security (Wool) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “and the” and inserting in their stead the words “appointed by the Governor-General shall serve in an honorary capacity but the other”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd October, 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 108 as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 77.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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