STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 81.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 1939-1943.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, 1944.

(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 (Supplementary) Regulations. †

Deferment of banking business in certain circumstances.

1. Regulation 24 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.), after the word “fixes”, the words “and until a date specified by the last-mentioned order or to be specified by a subsequent order”.

2. After regulation 43a of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Unclaimed deposits in Commonwealth Savings Bank.

“44. It shall not be necessary to include in any list published in pursuance of sub-section (3.) of section 90 of the Commonwealth Bank Act 1911-1943 any amount which is less than Five pounds and the provisions of sub-section (4.) of that section shall extend to any such amounts which have not been included in any such list and in respect of which a claim is not established within ten years after the moneys were carried to the Depositors’ Unclaimed Fund.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     , 1944.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date.

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

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