National Security (Prices) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 152.

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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 eighteenth day of October, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Prices) Regulations. 

1. After regulation 17 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Production of balance-sheets and other accounts and statements.

17a.—(1.) A trader who sells or has for sale any goods or supplies or carries on any service, upon being required so to do by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner by notice in writing, shall produce to the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be—

(a)all balance-sheets, manufacturing, trading, profit and loss, production and revenue accounts and all production, financial and statistical and similar statements prepared by the trader or on his behalf in relation to his business of selling goods or supplying or carrying on a service; and

(b) all documents of any kind (including documents of the kind referred to in regulation 49 of these Regulations) which relate to the conduct of the business including the sale of the goods or the supply or carrying on of the service,

which are specified in the notice, and shall leave those balance-sheets, accounts, statements and documents with the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, or furnish him with copies thereof.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  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; and 1944, Nos. 25, 83 and 94.

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“(2.) Where any balance-sheet, account, statement or document required to be produced to the Commissioner or to the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, is in the possession or control of any person other than the trader to whose business it relates, that person shall, upon being required so to do by the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, by notice in writing, produce to and leave with the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, that balance-sheet, account, statement or document.

“(3.) A trader or other person who has been required to produce to the Commissioner or to the Deputy Commissioner, any balance-sheet, account, statement or document, shall, if the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, so requires, permit the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, to make a copy of, or to take an extract from, that balance-sheet, account, statement or document.”.

Power to declare goods and services.

2. Regulation 22 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by omitting the proviso to sub-regulation (2.).

 

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