STATUTORY RULES.
1939.
No. 164.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY
ACT 1939.*
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.
Dated
this first day of December, 1939.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
National
Security (Meat
Export) Regulations.
Short
title.
1. These Regulations
may be cited as the National Security (Meat Export) Regulations.
Definitions.
2.—(1.) In these
Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“edible offal” means any edible portion, other than
the flesh, of cattle, sheep or pigs;
“meat” means the flesh, whether fresh or preserved, of
cattle, sheep or pigs.
(2.) Any reference in these Regulations to
the Meat Export Control Act 1935 shall include a reference to that Act
as amended and in force in any particular time.
Export
of meat to United Kingdom.
3. Notwithstanding
the grant of any licence or authority under the Meat Export Control Act
1935, no person shall sell or export any meat or edible offal to any person in
the United Kingdom other than to His Majesty’s Minister of State of Food in the
United Kingdom.
* Notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette on ,
1939.
7110.—15/30.11.1939.—Price 3d.
Variation
of export licenses.
4.
Compliance with the provisions of regulation 3 of these Regulations shall be
deemed to be a condition of every license or authority granted under the Meat Export Control Act 1935and, in addition to any other penalty
to which any person may be liable for any contravention of the provisions of
regulation 3 of these Regulations, sub-sections (2.) and (3.) of section 17 of
the Meat Export Control Act 1935
shall apply as if that contravention were also a contravention of a condition
of a license or authority to export prescribed under and in accordance with the
provisions of the Meat Export Control Act
1935.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government
Printer, Canberra.