National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 174.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of November, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations. 

General amendments in relation to stock.

1. Regulations 19 to 23 (inclusive) and 25 to 30 (inclusive) of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations are amended by inserting, after the word “meat” (wherever occurring), the words “or stock”.

2.After regulation 8 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Delegation by Controller.

“8a.—(1.) The Controller may, in relation to any matters or class of matters or in relation to any State or part of the Commonwealth, by writing under his hand, delegate to any person any of his powers and functions under these Regulations (except this power of delegation) so that the delegated powers or functions may be exercised by the delegate.

“(2.) Every such delegation shall be revocable at will, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power or function by the Controller.”.

3. After regulation 10 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—

Deputies of members.

“10a.—(1.) The Minister may, in respect of any member of the Committee, appoint a person to be the deputy of that member.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1943, No. 64, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 186 and 284.

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“(2.) Any person so appointed shall, during the illness or absence of the member of whom he is a deputy, have all the powers of that member and shall be counted as a member for the purposes of any quorum.”.

4. After regulation 15 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Continuance in force of certain laws.

“15a. Nothing contained in the provisions of regulations 13, 14 and 15 of these Regulations shall be deemed to affect the operation of any law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory of the Commonwealth relating to—

(a)the licensing of abattoirs or other establishments where stock is slaughtered, the imposition of fees therefor, or the imposition of fees or other charges for the use of abattoirs or other establishments where stock is slaughtered, or for services performed by the person or authority operating any such abattoirs or establishment; or

(b) the inspection of carcasses of stock slaughtered at abattoirs or other establishments where stock is slaughtered, or the payment of inspection fees for that inspection,

and the provisions of those regulations shall be construed, as far as possible, as being in addition to and not in substitution for any such law.”.

5. Regulation 17 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Terms and conditions of slaughtering.

“17. Without prejudice to any other power, the Controller may, by order, make provision for or in relation to requiring any person who slaughters stock to slaughter and treat stock on behalf of the persons specified or described in the order on the terms and conditions specified in the order or notified from time to time in the manner provided by the order.”.

Acquisition of meat or stock.

6. Regulation 19 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word “Gazette”, the words “or served on any person having the possession, control or disposal of the meat or stock”.

Delivery of meat or stock.

7. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “packed and prepared”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The person who delivers or consigns meat or stock in accordance with any such notice shall be entitled to recover from the Commonwealth all expenses reasonably incurred by him in delivering or consigning the meat or stock.”.

Compensation.

8. Regulation 22 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “equal to the value which the meat had on the day on which it was acquired” and inserting in their stead the word “just”.

Inspection of stocks, books, &c.

9. Regulation 26 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “stocks of”.

10. Regulation 37 of the National Security (Meat Industry Control) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Service of orders and notices.

“37. Any order or notice which, by these Regulations or any order made thereunder, is required or permitted to be served on or given to any person may be served or given by posting the order or notice to that person at his last known place of abode or at any of his places of business.”.

 

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