| C2004C05121 | LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - Incorporating all amendments by
legislation made to 29 February 1980
- Reprinted as at 29 February 1980 (HISTACT CHAP 246 #DATE 29:02:1980)
*1* The Liquid Fuel (Defence Stocks) Act 1949 (a) as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 29, 1949 as amended by the other Act specified in the following table: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number Date of Act and year Date of Assent commencement ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liquid Fuel (Defence Stocks) Act 1949 No. 29, 1949 12 July 1949 12 July 1949 Statute Law Revision (Decimal Currency) Act 1966 No. 93, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 Dec 1966 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) This citation is provided for by the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905 and the Acts Citation Act 1976. LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Notice to maintain stocks of liquid fuel
5. Requirement to comply with notices
6. Compensation
7. Regulations
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LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - LONG TITLE
SECT
An Act to provide, in the interests of Defence, for the Maintenance of Stocks
of Liquid Fuel within Australia
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 1.
Short title.
SECT
1. This Act may be cited as the Liquid Fuel (Defence Stocks) Act 1949.*1*
See notes to first article of this Chapter.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 2.
Commencement.
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*
See notes to first article of this Chapter.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 3.
Interpretation.
SECT
3. In this Act, "liquid fuel" means aviation spirit, motor spirit,
kerosene, automotive diesel oil, diesel oil fuel, residual fuel oil,
lubricating oil or crude petroleum.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 4.
Notice to maintain stocks of liquid fuel.
SECT
4. (1) The Minister may-
(a) by notice in writing served on a person who imports liquid fuel into
Australia, require that person to maintain, at such places in Australia as are
specified in the notice, stocks of liquid fuel of such classes and quantities
as are so specified, being stocks which, in the opinion of the Minister, it is
essential should be so maintained in the interests of defence; and
(b) by a further notice in writing so served, revoke or vary any such
notice, or any such notice as previously varied.
(2) The Minister shall exercise his powers under this section-
(a) in such manner as is, in his opinion, equitable having regard to the
total stocks of liquid fuel which, in his opinion, it is essential should be
maintained in Australia in the interests of defence and the proportions in
which imports of liquid fuel into Australia are made by the several importers;
and
(b) so that the total stocks of liquid fuel of any class from time to time
required, in pursuance of notices in force under this section, to be
maintained by persons on whom such notices have been served do not exceed the
total stocks which, in the opinion of the Minister, it is essential should be
so maintained in Australia in the interests of defence.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 5.
Requirement to comply with notices.
Sub-section (1) amended by No. 93, 1966, s. 3.
SECT
5. (1) Subject to this section, a person on whom a notice under the last
preceding section is served shall, while the notice remains unrevoked, comply
with the notice, or with the notice as varied for the time being.
Penalty: One thousand dollars for each day during which the contravention of
this sub-section continues.
(2) The Minister, or a person empowered by the Minister to act under this
sub-section, may, in order to meet temporary circumstances, by writing under
his hand, authorize a person affected by a notice under the last preceding
section to reduce any stock of liquid fuel to a quantity not less than a
quantity specified in the authority (being a quantity less than the quantity
otherwise required to be maintained by that person) and to keep that stock so
reduced during a period specified in the authority, and that person shall not,
by reason only of his acting in accordance with that authority, be guilty of
an offence against the last preceding sub-section.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 6.
Compensation.
SECT
6. (1) A person on whom a notice under this Act is served shall be entitled
to fair compensation from the Commonwealth in respect of any loss suffered by
him by reason of his having maintained, for the purpose of complying with the
notice, any stocks of liquid fuel in excess of the stocks which he would
otherwise have maintained.
(2) The amount of any compensation under this section shall be determined by
agreement or, in default of agreement, by action against the Commonwealth in
any court of competent jurisdiction.
LIQUID FUEL (DEFENCE STOCKS) ACT 1949 - SECT. 7.
Regulations.
SECT
7. The Governor-General may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act,
prescribing all matters which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
the carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
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