Commonwealth legislation

National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations (Repeal)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

53 of 1957

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This is a short, administrative ‘housekeeping’ law from 1957 that removes old World War II emergency regulations from the statute books.

What it does

Repeals (cancels) the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations — a set of wartime rules made between 1941 and 1946 under the National Security Act.
These regulations governed how Australia detained, managed and released enemy prisoners of war during WWII.

Why it matters By 1957, the war had been over for more than a decade and the emergency regulations were no longer needed. This formal repeal cleaned up the law books, ensuring outdated wartime powers were not left sitting on the statute books indefinitely. It did not create any new rules or change how anyone was treated; it simply ended the legal authority for rules that had already fallen into disuse.

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National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations (Repeal)

STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 53.

REGULATION UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1956.*

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 Defence Act 1903-1956.

Dated this 25th day of September, 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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Minister of State for Defence.

Repeal of the National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations.

The National Security (Prisoners of War) Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 178, 201 and 267; Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 315 and 526; Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 88, 132 and 277; Statutory Rules 1944, No. 78; Statutory Rules 1945, No. 162; and Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 11, 69 and 152) are repealed.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3rd October, 1957.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

4810/57.—Price 3d. 9/19.8.1957.

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