National Security (Tobacco Rationing) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 399.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

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 1939-1940.

Dated this seventeenth day of September, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendments of the National Security (Tobacco Rationing) Regulations.

Limitation of delivery of tobacco.

1. Regulation 5 of the National Security (Tobacco Rationing) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the words “either generally to any vendor or to any vendor included in a particular class of vendors”.

2. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Tobacco Rationing) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Minister may make orders requiring delivery of tobacco.

“8.—(1.) The Minister may, by order, direct the amount of tobacco to be delivered during any month by a manufacturer to a vendor or to a vendor included in a particular class of vendors or by a vendor to another vendor or to a vendor included in a particular class of vendors and the manufacturer or vendor shall, unless he has reasonable grounds for not complying with the direction, deliver tobacco accordingly.

“(2.) The Minister may, by order, determine the amount of tobacco which any vendor or any vendor included in a particular class of vendors may receive during any month, and that vendor shall not receive during that month tobacco in excess of the amount so determined.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 83.

 

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

6311.—Price 3d. 25/1.9.1942.