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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 33.

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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 fourteenth day of February, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

National Security (Prices) Regulations. 

Appointment of Deputy Commissioners.

1. Regulation 6 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) If the Minister declares, by notice in the Gazette, that, for the purposes of the administration of these Regulations, any portion of a State or Territory is attached to any adjoining State, the Deputy Commissioner in that adjoining State shall be the Deputy Commissioner in the portion so attached.”.

Determination of maximum prices, &c.

2. Regulation 18 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1a.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1b.) Notwithstanding anything contained in these Regulations, the Commissioner may, on application by an exporter of declared goods, and subject to such conditions as the Commissioner determines, approve of the sale of such goods for export at a price exceeding the maximum price fixed for those goods in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.”.

Contravention of prices and rates.

3. Regulation 20 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) For the purposes of this regulation, a person shall be deemed to offer goods for sale if he notifies the price proposed by him for a sale of the goods by the publication of a price list, by exposing the goods for sale in association with a mark indicating price, by furnishing a quotation or otherwise howsoever.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 110, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 114, 119, 127, 152 and 166.

 

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

716.—8/1.2.1940.—Price 3d.