Commonwealth legislation

National Security (Regulations Repeal) Regulations (No. 9)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.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

132 of 1946

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This measure dismantles remaining WWII emergency controls, repealing wartime regulations that allowed extraordinary government control over property, movement and related supplementary powers.

It affects ordinary Australians by restoring peacetime legal norms for property rights and international travel, marking a formal rollback of intrusive federal wartime powers and a return to civilian governance.

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National Security (Regulations Repeal) Regulations (No. 9)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 132.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1946.*

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 1939-1946.

Dated this seventh day of August, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

E. J. HOLLOWAY

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

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National Security (Regulations Repeal) Regulations (No. 9).

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Security (Regulations Repeal) Regulations (No. 9).

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of August, 1946.

Miscellaneous amendments and repeals.

3. The Regulations specified in the first column of the Schedule to these Regulations are amended or repealed as respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule.

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THE SCHEDULE.

Regulations.	Amendments and Repeals.
National Security (Emergency Control) Regulations..	Repeal the whole
National Security (Passport) Regulations..........	Repeal the whole
National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.....	Regulation 43a—Omit the regulation

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th August, 1946.

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

7704.—Price 3d.

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