STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 151.

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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this eighteenth day of October, 1944.

W. DUGAN,

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. M. FORDE

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:—

Supplying short weight food, &c., to Defence Force.

“130.—(1.) A contractor, purveyor or other person or an employee of a contractor, purveyor or other person, shall not supply to the Commonwealth or to any officer of the Commonwealth, for use by the Defence Force, any article of food, material or equipment which is less in quantity than that specified in the contract, agreement, order, invoice or other like document under which it is to be supplied.

“(2.) In any prosecution for an offence under the last preceding sub-regulation it shall be a defence if the defendant proves that he supplied the article, material or equipment without intent to defraud and that he neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing that the article, material or equipment was so less in quantity.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 19th October, 1944.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1944, No. 2; and see also Statutory Rules 1944, Nos. 5, 43, 45, 58, 62, 66, 74, 81, 83, 88, 92, 104, 127 and 135.

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

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