STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 40.

 

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 twenty first day of February, 1941.

Signature of Lord Gowrie

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signature of John McEwen

for and on behalf of the Acting Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.†

Regulation 26 of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (2.), the following sub-regulations:—

“(2a.) The Minister may appoint a person, who holds or has held the office of Justice or Judge of a Federal Court or the office of Justice or Judge or of Acting Justice or Acting Judge of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth, to be acting chairman of an advisory committee during any illness or absence of the chairman, or during any inability from any cause of the chairman to act as chairman.

“(2b.) The Minister may appoint a person to act in the place of any member (other than the chairman) of an advisory committee during any illness or absence of the member or during any inability, from any cause, of the member to act as member.

“(2c.) A person appointed to be acting chairman, or to act in the place of a member, of an advisory committee, shall have and may perform and exercise, during the illness, absence or inability of the chairman or member, as the case may be, all the duties, powers and functions of the chairman or member, as the case may be, under this regulation and the rules thereunder.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177; 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 45, 67, 71, 90, 91, 103, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, 191, 243, 246, 261, 262, 263, 264 and 270; and 1941, Nos. 2, 8 and 9.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

963.—6/17.2.1941.—Price 3d.