National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 118.

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 twenty-eighth day of May, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

P. A. McBRIDE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations. 

Motor spirit not to be acquired withoutlicence, &c.

1. Regulation 16 of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “, and, in the case of ration tickets to which sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 21 of these Regulations is applicable, duly endorsed in accordance with that sub-regulation”.

Supply and endorsement of ration tickets.

2. Regulation 21 of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The licensee shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of any such ration ticket (other than a special bulk ration ticket), endorse in ink on the back thereof the number of the licence, and shall sign his name in ink to the endorsement:

Provided that it shall be a sufficient compliance with this sub-regulation if the endorsement is duly made and signed by an authorized agent of the licensee, and includes the name of the licensee.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th May, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1946, No. 203.

2970.—Price 3d.

 

3. Regulation 24 of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Motor spirit or diesel oil fuel not to be disposed of without a licence.

“24. Subject to these Regulations, a person shall not dispose of motor spirit or diesel oil fuel in any part of the Commonwealth (other than the Northern Territory) except:—

(a) under and in pursuance of a motor spirit or diesel oil fuel bulk supplier’s or retailer’s licence, as the case may be; and

(b) in the case of disposals by a bulk supplier, to the holder of a motor spirit or diesel oil fuel consumer’s or retailer’s licence, as the case may be, or, in the case of disposals by a retailer, tothe holder of a motor spirit or diesel oil fuel consumer’s licence, as the case may be.”.

Disposal of motor spirit &c., to licensed consumers.

4. Regulation 27 of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations is amended—

(a) byomitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1.) the words “this regulation” and inserting in their stead the words “regulation 21 of these Regulations”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

Production and return of licence.

5. Regulation 37of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1a.) Any holder of a motor spirit or diesel oil fuel consumer’s licence containing a description of an occupation, business or profession who ceases to use the vehicle or engine referred to in the licence in connexion with that occupation, business or profession shall, within seven days thereafter, return the licence to the Liquid Fuel Control Board by which it was granted.”.

6. After regulation 51 ofthe National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Copying ration tickets and licences.

“51a.—(1.) A person shall not without the authority of the Board (proof whereof shall lie upon him) make or have in his possession—

(a) any copy of a ration ticket or of a licence; or

(b) any writing, engraving, photograph or print resembling either a ration ticket or a licence, or apparently intended to be or pass for a copy of a ration ticket or a licence.

“(2.) In this regulation the expression ‘copy of a ration ticket or of a licence’ includes any representation of a ration ticket or of a licence in any size or scale.”.

7. After regulation 53 of the National Security (Liquid Fuel) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Proof of resolutions of Board.

“53a. A copy of a minute recording a resolution or direction of the Board under or pursuant to these Regulations, and a copy of any exhibit, appendix or schedule referred to in or attached to any such minute, certified to be a true copy by a memorandum signed by the Controller or the Secretary to the Board shall be admissible before all

 

courts and in all legal proceedings as evidence of the due adoption of that resolution or giving of that direction, and as evidence of any such exhibit, appendix or schedule.

Evidenceregarding ration tickets.

“53b. A certificate in writing signed by the Controller or the Secretary to the Board certifying that no person, other than the persons named in the certificate, has been authorized by the Board to make any die, plate or other instrument for use in the printing of ration tickets, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate”.

 

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