National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 245.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

WHEREAS it is desirable, for the purpose of securing the public safety and the defence of the Commonwealth, to control the entry and delivery of certain goods for home consumption under the Customs Act 1901-1936, the Excise Act 1901-1934 or the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928:

Now therefore I, the Deputy of 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 National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this eighth day of November, 1940.

WAKEHURST

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. HARRISON

for Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

After regulation 8 of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations the following regulation is added:—

“Control of entry and delivery of goods for home consumption.

9.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, an entry for home consumption under the Customs Act 1901-1936 or under the Excise Act 1901-1934, shall not be passed in respect of any goods specified by the Minister by order in writing to be goods to which this regulation applies, and no such goods shall be deemed to have been so entered, unless the entry has been delivered or made in pursuance of a licence granted by the Minister.

“(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928—

(a) duty shall not be paid on any beer; and

(b) beer shall not be removed from the brewery in which it has been made or from any brewery or delivery store to which it has been transferred in pursuance of the provisions of that Act,

except in pursuance of a licence granted by the Minister.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th November, 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1940, Nos. 151, 169, 213, 228 and 234.

6990.—Price 3d.

“(3.) The Minister may, in his absolute discretion, grant or refuse a licence—

(a) to deliver or make an entry for home consumption under the Customs Act 1901-1930 or under the Excise Act 1901-1934 in respect of any goods to which this regulation applies;

(b) to pay Excise duty on any beer; or

(c) to remove beer from any brewery or from any delivery store to which it has been transferred in pursuance of the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928,

and may, at any time, revoke or vary any such licence.

“(4.) A person shall not, except in pursuance of a licence granted by the Minister under this regulation—

(a) deliver or make an entry for home consumption under the Customs Act 1901-1936 or under the Excise Act 1901-1936 in respect of any goods to which this regulation applies;

(b) pay excise duty on any beer; or

(c) remove beer from any brewery or from any delivery store to which it has been transferred in pursuance of the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928.

“(5.) Where an entry is delivered or made in contravention of this regulation the entry shall be void and of no effect.

“(6.) In this regulation the expression ‘the Minister’ means the Minister of State for Trade and Customs, and the term ‘beer’ has the same meaning as in the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928.”.

 

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