STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 86.

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 first day of April, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) 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:—

Recovery from contractors of charges or expenditure improperly incurred.

“94—(1) A Commonwealth officer, or a contractor with the Commonwealth or with an authority of the Commonwealth, shall not—

(a) convert to his own use any property belonging to the Commonwealth or to any such authority, or

(b) incur any charge or expenditure against the Commonwealth which is not duly authorized by the terms of his employment as a Commonwealth officer or under his contract with the Commonwealth or with an authority of the Commonwealth.

“(2.) The Attorney General or any person authorized in that behalf by the Attorney-General may take such measures or proceedings as he thinks fit to recover the value of any such property or the amount of any such charge or expenditure (whether the property was converted, or the charge or expenditure was incurred, before or after the commencement of this regulation) and, without prejudice to any other measures of recovery, may sue for and recover the value of the property or the amount of the charge or expenditure in any court of competent jurisdiction.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘contractor’ includes any person sub-contracting with, or employed by, any contractor with the Commonwealth or with any authority of the Commonwealth.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see note “†” to Statutory Rules 1942, No. 515, and see also Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 495, 500, 501, 515, 517, 524 and 536.

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

8696.—PRICE 3d. 15/11.1.1943.