Supply and Development (Emergency Planning and Organization) Regulations 1939 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 70.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE SUPPLY AND DEVELOPMENT ACTS 1939.*

WHEREAS by section 6 of the Supply and Development Acts 1939 it is provided that, where, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is necessary or desirable in the interests of the defence of the Commonwealth that information should be obtained in relation to industrial, commercial or other undertakings, or with respect to any goods, the regulations under that Act may require such persons or classes of persons, as are prescribed, to furnish, as prescribed, such information and particulars as are prescribed, with respect to those undertakings or goods:

And whereas I am of opinion that it is necessary in the interests of the defence of the Commonwealth that information should be obtained from manufacturers of goods and from traders in relation to goods:

Now therefore 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 Supply and Development Acts 1939.

Dated this twenty third day of April, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Supply and Development.

 

Amendment of the Supply and Development (Emergency Planning and Organization) Regulations.

After regulation 4 of the Supply and Development (Emergency Planning and Organization) Regulations, the following regulations are added:—

“Returns in relation to goods.

5.—(1.) The Secretary may, by notice, require any manufacturer or trader to furnish a return—

(a) in relation to such goods;

(b)in accordance with such part or parts or Form A or Form B in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(c) in relation to such period or time,

as the Secretary specifies.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 107, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, No. 158.

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“(2.) The notice may be—

(a) a notice given to an individual manufacturer or the trader;

(b) a notice to all manufacturers or traders; or

(c) a notice to any class or description of manufacturers or traders.

“(3.) Any notice under paragraph (b) or (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be published in the Gazette and in such newspapers (if any) as the Secretary directs.

“Additional particulars in returns.

6. The Secretary may, in any notice given under these Regulations, require the person to whom the notice is given to furnish information and particulars, with respect to any goods specified in the notice, relating to all or any of the following matters:—

(a) that person’s experience in, and qualifications for, the production or manufacture of any goods specified in the notice;

(b) the equipment, materials and labour required for the production or manufacture of goods so specified, and that person’s ability to produce any goods so specified within a stated period;

(c) the arrangements made by that person for the supply of, and the estimated future stocks of, any goods so specified.”.

 

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