STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 515.

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 November, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

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

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary)

Regulations.†

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

Particulars of arrest of offenders to be telegraphed to Solicitor-General.

“85. Where any person who is suspected of having committed an offence, or of being about to commit an offence, against the National Security Act 1939-1940 is arrested under section 13 of that Act, the person effecting the arrest shall, within one hour after effecting the arrest (or, if the nearest telegraph office is not then open for business, within one hour after that telegraph office becomes open for business), telegraph to the Solicitor-General, Canberra, a report setting out—

(a) the fact of the arrest, including the name, address and occupation of the person arrested;

(b) particulars of the suspected offence; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25th November, 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126 as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228, 233, 234, 245 and 257; 1941, Nos. 75, 88, 100, 140, 197, 200, 222, 249, 296, 297, 303, 314, 318, 320 and 323; and 1942, Nos. 16, 20, 21, 36, 40, 50, 57, 62, 63, 72, 78, 90, 111, 125, 132, 147, 150, 153, 154, 157, 161, 172, 175, 185, 188, 189, 197, 201, 213, 219, 230, 233, 265, 269, 271, 278, 280, 282, 295, 353, 361, 370, 376, 378, 391, 392, 394, 396, 404, 407, 408, 411, 420, 422, 429, 431, 436, 438, 443, 449, 468, 469, 474, 484, 493, 495, 500 and 501.

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