STATUTORY RULES.
1947.
No. 36.
REGULATION
UNDER THE DEFENCE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1946.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation
under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946.
Dated this twentieth day of March,
1947.
W. J. McKELL
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
BEN.
COURTICE
for
and on behalf of the Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.
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Amendment of the National Security (Prices)
Regulations.
After
regulation 23aof the National Security (Prices) Regulations, the
following regulation is inserted:—
Transactions
may be declared to be sales.
“23b.—
(1.) The Commissioner may, by order published in the Gazette, declare that where a person (in
this regulation referred to as ‘the agent’) purchases goods (whether declared
goods or not) as agent, or purported agent, for another person (in this
regulation referred to as ‘the principal’) and processes or treats the goods
and delivers goods resulting from the processing or treatment to the principal,
the carrying out of the agency (or purported agency) and the performance of the
other services by the agent shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be
deemed to be a sale of the goods so delivered by the agent to the principal at
a price equal to the sum of the amounts paid or payable by the principal to the
agent in respect of the agency and services (including the price paid by the
agent for the goods purchased by him) and the order shall, for the purposes of
these Regulations, have effect according to its tenor.
“(2.) The Commissioner may, either
generally by order published in the Gazette,
or specifically by notice in writing, exempt any person or class of persons
from the operation of any order made in pursuance of this regulation.”.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on
20th March, 1947.
Being the Regulations having that title as in force under the Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946.
The Regulations under the National
Security Act 1939-1946 having the corresponding title comprise Statutory
Rules 1940, No. 176, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, Nos. 219 and 294;
1941, Nos. 54 and 231; 1942, No. 513; 1943, Nos. 220, 264 and 278; 1944, Nos.
25, 83, 94, 113, 152 and 192; 1945, Nos. 7, 24, 47, 52 and 113; and 1946, Nos.
12, 19, 71, 93 and 148.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
1546.—Price 3d.