STATUTORY
RULES.
1946. No. 19.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939–1943.*
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 1939–1943.
Dated this twenty-third
day of January, 1946.
HENRY
Governor-General.
By
His Royal Highness’s Command,
R. V. KEANE
for and on behalf of the
Minister of
State for Defence.
Amendments
of the National Security (Prices) Regulations.
Power
to obtain information.
1. Regulation 17 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is
amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1a.)
the following sub-regulation:—
“(1b.) The Commissioner, Deputy
Commissioner or officer thereto authorized in writing by the Commissioner may,
by notice in writing, require the information to be given, or the question to
be answered, in writing and at the place specified in the notice.”.
Inter-wholesale
transactions.
2. Regulation 26 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is
amended by inserting after the word “sell” (first, second, fourth and fifth
occurring) the words “or offer for sale”.
Inter-retail
transactions.
3. Regulation 26a of the
National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “sell”
(first, second and fourth occurring) the words “offer for sale”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th January, 1946.
Statutory Rules 1940, No. 176, as
amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 219 and 294; 1941, Nos. 54 and 251; 1942,
No. 513; 1943, Nos. 220, 264 and 278; 1944, Nos. 25, 83, 94, 113, 152 and 192;
and 1945, Nos. 7, 24, 47, 52 and 113.
223.—Price 3d.
Offering
to pay higher price for declared goods, &c.
4. Regulation 32 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(2.)
Where the maximum price or rate relevant to any prosecution for a contravention
of this regulation is a price or rate fixed by notice in writing to any person
or body or association of persons, it shall be a defence to the prosecution for
the person charged to prove that he was not aware of the fact that the price or
rate had been so fixed.”.
Speculating
in goods.
5. Regulation 37 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is
amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “sale of goods” and
inserting in their stead the words “purchase or acquisition of goods at a sale
of those goods”.
Application
of orders, &c.
6.—(1.) Regulation 45b
of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting
after the word “order” the word “, declaration”; and
(b) by inserting
after paragraph (b) the following paragraph:—
“(ba) in the case
of an order, any person to whom a notice is given in pursuance of the order;”.
(2.)
Every order, or provision of an order, made, or purporting or appearing to have
been made, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.), or
paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.), of regulation 23 of these
Regulations before the commencement of this regulation, and every notice in
writing given under any such order or provision, shall, by virtue of this
regulation, but subject to any amendment or revocation made or purporting to
have been made by any subsequent order or notice (whether before or after the
commencement of this regulation), have, after the commencement of this
regulation, the same force and effect as it would have had if regulation 45b of the National Security (Prices)
Regulations, as amended by this regulation, had been in force at the time when
the order or provision was so made, and had continued in force up to the
commencement of this regulation.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.