STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 322.

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this Twenty fourth day of July, 1942.

(Sgd.) Gowrie.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

amendments of the national security (Hide and Leather Industries) Regulations.†

Returns.

1. Regulation 23 of the National Security (Hide and Leather Industries) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) The Board may, by notice in writing or by order, require any person, or persons included in any class of persons, to furnish, in such manner and within such time as are specified in the notice or order, such returns relating to hides or leather as the Board thinks fit.”.

2. Regulation 35 of the National Security (Hide and Leather Industries) Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are inserted in its stead:—

Offences in connexion with appraisement.

“35. A person who submits any hides for appraisement in pursuance of these Regulations shall not—

(a) do anything in or in connexion with the cataloguing, grading or display of any of those hides which is intended or likely to deceive the person making the appraisement; or

(b) trim any of the hides otherwise than in the manner customary in the preparation of hides for sale.

False returns.

“35a. A person shall not furnish any return required by or under these Regulations to be furnished which is false or misleading in any particular.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 153, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 173 and 249; 1941, No. 273; and 1942, No. 140.

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

5341.—Price 3d. 25/18.7.1942.