STATUTORY RULES.
1963. No. 44.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE REPATRIATION (SPECIAL OVERSEAS SERVICE) ACT 1962.*
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 Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962.
Dated this twentieth day of May, 1963.
E. W. WOODWARD
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Repatriation.
REPATRIATION (SPECIAL AREAS) REGULATIONS.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Repatriation (Special Areas) Regulations.
Interpretation.
2. In these Regulations, “ the Act ” means the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act 1962.
Commencement.
3. These Regulations shall come into operation on the day on which the Act comes into operation.
Vietnam (Southern Zone) to be a special area.
4. It is declared that, by reason of a state of disturbance in or affecting the area specified in the First Schedule to these Regulations, being an area outside Australia, that area shall be deemed to have become, on the thirty-first day of July, 1962, a special area for the purposes of the Act.
Part of Federation of Malaya to be a special area.
5. It is declared that, by reason of a state of disturbance in or affecting the area specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations, being an area outside Australia, that area shall become, on the date fixed by proclamation as the date of commencement of the Act, a special area for the purposes of the Act.
THE SCHEDULES.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Regulation 4.
Vietnam (Southern Zone).
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Regulation 5.
All that part of the Federation of Malaya contained within the area bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the western shore of the Federation of Malaya at high-water mark and the boundary between the States of Perlis and Kedah; thence proceeding generally north-easterly along that boundary to its intersection with the railway line from Arau to Pinang Tunggal; thence following that railway line generally southerly to its intersection with the northern boundary between the States of Penang and Kedah; thence proceeding along the boundary between those States generally easterly, southerly and westerly to the intersection of the boundaries of the States of Penang, Kedah and Perak; thence following the boundary between the States of Penang and Perak to its intersection with the railway line from Pinang Tunggal to Taiping; thence following that railway line generally southerly, easterly and southerly to its intersection with the parallel 4 degrees 51 minutes north latitude; thence proceeding due south in a straight line to the intersection of that line with the parallel 4 degrees 30 minutes north latitude; thence proceeding along that parallel to its intersection with the eastern bank of the Perak River; thence following that bank of that river to its intersection with the parallel 4 degrees 47 minutes north latitude; thence proceeding in a straight line to the intersection of the boundaries of the States of Perak, Kelantan and Pahang; thence proceeding along the boundary between the States of Kelantan and Pahang to its intersection with the meridian 101 degrees 48 minutes east longitude; thence proceeding in a straight line to the intersection of the eastern bank of the Raya River with the eastern bank of the Nenggiri River; thence following that bank of that river to its intersection with the western bank of the Galas River; thence proceeding in a straight line due east to the eastern bank of that river; thence following that bank of that river and the eastern bank of the Kelantan River to its intersection with the eastern shore of the Federation of Malaya at high-water mark; thence following that shore at high-water mark to its intersection with the boundary between the Federation of Malaya and Thailand; thence proceeding along that boundary to the western shore of the Federation of Malaya and Thailand at high-water mark; thence following that shore of the Federation of Malaya at high-water mark to the point of commencement.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.