STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 100.

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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 ninth day of May, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD) W. M. HUGHES

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

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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

After regulation 13 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Powers of High Court in relation to control of firms and corporations.

“14. The powers conferred on the High Court by section 13 of the Trading With the Enemy Act 1939-1940 shall include, and shall be deemed to have included at all times since the commencement of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939, power to authorize payments for the sustenance and maintenance—

(a) of any person in respect of whom the High Court has appointed a controller under that section; and

(b) of any person being a partner, director, manager or employee, or former partner, director, manager or employee, of any firm or corporation in respect of which the High Court has appointed a controller under that section,

and for the sustenance and maintenance of the dependants of any such person”.

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

†Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; and 1941, No. 75.

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