STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 45.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939.*

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.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of February, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.†

Regulation 60a of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “by order”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following paragraphs:—

“(c) members of a religious order or persons who are students at a College maintained solely for training persons to become members of a religious order; or

(d) persons residing at so great a distance from the places appointed for training that, in the opinion of the Minister, it is desirable that they should be exempt from service,”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th February, 1940.

† Statutory Rules 1930, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174 and 177; and 1940, No. 8.

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

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