National Security (Gas Producer) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 352

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

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 1939-1940.

Dated this fourteenth day of August, 1942.

(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 (Gas Producer) Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Gas Producer) Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of “equipment” the following definitions:—

“‘Liquid Fuel Control Board’ means a Liquid Fuel Control Board or Liquid Fuel Control Authority constituted or appointed under the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations;

‘permit’ means a permit granted by a Liquid Fuel Control Board in pursuance of regulation 14 of these Regulations”.

False information in applications.

2. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Gas Producer) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “in an application for a certificate of approval” and inserting in their stead the words “in or in connexion with an application under these Regulations”.

3. Regulation 11 of the National Security (Gas Producer) Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are inserted in its stead:—

Producer gas equipment not to be acquired without permit.

“11. A person shall not purchase or otherwise acquire or receive, or fit, or cause to be fitted, to any vehicle, any producer gas equipment except in pursuance of a permit.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1941. No. 115.

5562.—Price 3d.  25/6.8.1942

Producer gas equipment not to be sold or fitted except on production of permit.

“12.—(1.) Except in the case of sale or disposition by a manufacturer for purposes of demonstration or resale, a person shall not sell or otherwise dispose of any producer gas equipment otherwise than to a person who purchases, acquires or otherwise receives the equipment in pursuance of a permit, and who produces that permit to him.

“(2.) A person (other than the holder of a permit) shall not fit, or cause to be fitted, any producer gas equipment to any vehicle except upon the order of a person who has been granted a permit to fit, or cause to be fitted, producer gas equipment to that vehicle, and who produces the permit to him.

“(3.) Every person who sells or otherwise disposes of any producer gas equipment, and every person who fits any producer gas equipment to any vehicle (other than a vehicle in respect of which he holds a permit), shall maintain in respect of each such sale, disposal or fitting a record of the following particulars of the permit produced to him by the person to whom the sale or disposition was made, or upon whose order the equipment was fitted, namely:—

(a) Number of permit;

(b) Name and address of holder of permit;

(c) Registered number of vehicle; and

(d) Serial number and trade name of producer gas equipment supplied or fitted.

Application for permit to fit producer gas equipment.

“13. Every person desiring to obtain a permit to purchase, acquire, or otherwise receive, or to fit or cause to be fitted to any vehicle, any producer gas equipment may make application to a Liquid Fuel Control Board accordingly, and shall at the same time surrender to that Board any motor spirit consumer’s licence held by him under the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations.

Grant of permits.

“14. Where application is made under the last preceding regulation to a Liquid Fuel Control Board that Board may, subject to any direction of the Commonwealth Liquid Fuel Control Board, grant to the applicant a permit in writing authorizing him to purchase, acquire or receive the producer gas equipment specified in the permit, and to fit, or cause to be fitted, that equipment to the vehicle so specified, or to do such of those things as are so specified, or it may, subject to any such direction, refuse the application.

Spare parts and replacement parts.

“15. Nothing in regulations 11 and 12 of these Regulations shall affect the bona fide disposal or acquisition of any spare part or replacement part for any producer gas equipment.

Regulations not to apply to equipment manufactured for experimental purposes, &c.

“16. Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to producer gas equipment or any part thereof manufactured by a person bona fide for experimental purposes or for his own use and not for sale”.

 

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