National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 52.

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 third day of March, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendments of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations.  

1. After regulation 3 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Selection of wheat-growers’ representatives.

“3a.—(1.) For the purpose of appointing the members of the Board representing the wheat-growers of Australia, the Minister may arrange for nominees to be selected by persons licensed as growers under the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations.

“(2.) The selection of nominees shall be carried out in such manner as the Minister, by order published in the Gazette, provides.

“(3.) The Minister shall not be bound to appoint as a representative of the wheat-growers any person selected as a nominee in accordance with the preceding provisions of this regulation, but, whether nominees have been selected or not, the Minister may appoint as such a representative such person as he thinks fit.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on   , 1943.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 96, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 120, 155 and 180; 1940, Nos. 10, 132, 174, 208 and 271; 1941, Nos. 80, 110 and 256; and 1942, No. 66.

 

State Committees.

2. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a.) In the case of the Committee for the State of New South Wales, in addition to the members specified in the last preceding sub-regulation, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, appoint a person representing country wheat agents to be a member of the Committee, and any member so appointed shall hold office during the pleasure of the Minister.”.

Unauthorized dealings with wheat.

3. Regulation 17 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the word “or”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:—

“; or (c) purport to sell or offer for sale, or purport to buy or offer to buy (otherwise than from the Commonwealth), any wheat which is the property of the Commonwealth.”.

Compensation.

4. Regulation 19 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2a.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b) transport charges to the terminal port from the place at which the wheat is delivered to a licensed receiver; and”.

5. The National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 19c the following regulation:—

Declaration to be furnished as to old season’s wheat.

“19d. The Minister may, in respect of each season, by notice published in the Gazette, declare a date to be the final date of that season, and after the publication of any such notice, any person who consigns or delivers to a licensed receiver any wheat harvested prior to that date shall make and forward to the licensed receiver a declaration correctly stating the season during which that wheat was harvested.”.

Repeal of regs. 20a, 20b and 21.

6. Regulations 20a, 20b and 21 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations are repealed.

Powers of Board.

7. Regulation 26 of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraphs (a) and (b) the words “or corn sacks” and inserting in their stead the words “, corn sacks, jute or jute products”.

Amendment of the Schedule.

8. The Schedule to the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations is amended by omitting Form C.

 

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