National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 184.

 

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 thirteenth day of July, 1941.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations.

Definitions.

1. Regulation 2 of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations is amended by omitting from the definition of “wheat farm” the words “grain, but does not include” and inserting in their stead the words “grain, and includes any farm—

(a) which the Board is satisfied was, prior to the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, prepared or fallowed for the purpose of sowing wheat for grain thereon during the year commencing on that date; and

(b)concerning which the Board is satisfied that special circumstances exist which make it just that the farm should be treated as being within the meaning of this definition,

but does not include”.

Wheat Industry Stabilization Board.

2. Regulation 3 of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2.) the words “and another of the members to be the Executive Member of the Board”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1941.

 Statutory Rules 1940, No. 268.

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Duties of Board.

3. Regulation 7 of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b)the words “, and, for those purposes, the Board may appoint such committees to assist it as it thinks fit.”.

Registration of wheat growers.

4. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) the word “and”;

(b) by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.), the following paragraph:—

“(ab)that of the acreage so sown with wheat the wheat-grower shall, before the ear develops beyond the milky stage, cut for hay such of the crop, if any, as the Board determines; and”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(5.) A licence under this regulation shall be in respect of a registered farm, and, if that farm ceases to be registered, the licence shall thereupon, by force of this regulation, be cancelled.”.

5. Regulations 11 and 12 of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations are repealed and the following Regulations inserted in their stead:—

“Offences.

11.—(1.) A wheat-grower shall not—

(a)after the thirtieth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, harvest wheat for grain from any land other than from the wheat farm in respect of which he is licensed; or

(b) contravene or fail to comply with any condition of his licence.

“(2.) A person, not being a wheat-grower, shall not, after the thirtieth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, harvest any wheat for grain.

“(3.) Any person, whether a wheat-grower or not, being the occupier or having the control of any land which is not a wheat farm and on which wheat is sown, shall cut that wheat for hay before the ear develops beyond the milky stage.

“(4.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this regulation, it shall be lawful, until the thirty-first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, for a person who is not a wheat-grower to harvest wheat for grain for his own use if the area, or aggregate of the areas, of the land from which he harvests the wheat does not exceed ten acres.

Returns.

“12.—(1.) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, require any persons or any class of persons who own or occupy any land on which wheat is sown, to furnish to the Minister or to such other person as is specified in the notice, such returns relating to the sowing or harvesting of wheat as are specified in the notice, and any person, or any member of any class of persons, so required shall, in the form and manner and within the time specified in the notice, furnish those returns accordingly.

“(2.) The Minister, or any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister, may, by notice in writing addressed to any person who is required to furnish any return under the last preceding sub-regulation, require that person to furnish a further or fuller return relating to the sowing or harvesting of wheat, and any person so required shall, in the form and manner and within the time specified in the notice, furnish such further or fuller return, as the case may be, accordingly.

“(3.) The Minister may enter into an arrangement with any State providing for the collection on behalf of the Commonwealth by officers employed by that State of any returns, or any further or fuller returns, required to be furnished under this regulation.”.

 

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