STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 370.

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-fifth day of August, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

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Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.†

The National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—

Assisting or harbouring absentees from the Forces without leave

“67.—(1.) A person shall not—

(a) procure or persuade, or attempt to procure or persuade, any member of the Forces to absent himself without leave;

(b) knowing that a member of the Forces is about to absent himself without leave, aid or assist him test to so absent himself; or

(c) knowing any member of the Forces to be an absentee without leave, conceal him, aid or assist him in concealing himself, receive or harbour him, or in any way whatsoever assist him to remain or attempt to remain an absentee without leave.

(2.) In this regulation ‘member of the Forces’ means a member of the Defence Force of the Commonwealth or of the naval, military or air forces of the United Kingdom or of any other part of His Majesty’s dominions or of any Allied or other foreign force serving in association with His Majesty’s armed forces.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 246, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 265, 269, 271, 278, 280, 282, 295, 353 and 361.

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

5485.—Price 3d. 24/25.7.1942.