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

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 127.

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 twenty-first day of October, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY (PRICES) REGULATIONS.  

Power to declare goods.

1. Regulation 17 of the National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-regulation (1.), the following sub-regulations:-

“(1a.) Any declaration by the Minister in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation may be made generally or in respect of any part of the Commonwealth or any proclaimed area.”.

Contravention of prices.

2. Regulation 20 of National Security (Prices) Regulations is amended–

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “shall be liable” and inserting in their stead the words “, in

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

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

addition to any other penalty that may be imposed, the Court may order the defendant”;

(b) by adding at the end of that sub-regulation the words “and the like proceeding may taken upon the order as if the order had been a judgment of the Court in favour of the purchaser”; and

(c) by inserting, after sub-regulation (1.), the following sub-regulation:-

“(1a.) A certificate by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner specifying the difference between the maximum price fixed, in relation to the goods, the sale of which is the subject of any proceedings under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, and the price at which the goods were sold shall be prima facie