STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 66.

REGULATION UNDER THE IMMIGRATION ACT 1901-1940.*

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 Immigration Act 1901-1940.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of March, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. S. FOLL

Minister of State for the Interior.

Amendment of the Immigration Regulations.†

Regulation 6 of the Immigration Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Maintenance guarantee.

“6.—(1.) Maintenance guarantees in a form approved by the Minister shall be given, in such circumstances as the Minister thinks fit, in relation to persons seeking to enter the Commonwealth.

“(2.) Where a maintenance guarantee has been given in pursuance of this regulation and the person in relation to whom it has been given, by reason of infirmity of mind or body, insufficiency of means to support himself or any other cause, becomes, within five years of his arrival in the Commonwealth, a charge upon State funds or upon any public or charitable institution, the cost of his maintenance by the State or any such institution may be recovered by any officer authorized in that behalf by the Minister, in any court of competent jurisdiction, from the person who guaranteed his maintenance.

“(3.) Any amount so recovered shall be payable to the State or institution upon the funds of which any such person was a charge.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th March, 1941.

† Statutory Rules 1932, No. 103, as amended by Statutory Rules 1933, No. 128, and 1940, No. 144.

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

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