War Precautions (Coal) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.
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
Dated this twenty-eighth day of September, 1917.
R. M. FERGUSON.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOSEPH COOK,
for the Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, No. 240.)
1. The War Precautions (Coal) Regulations are amended by inserting therein, after Regulation 4, the following Regulation:—
“4a. (1) The Minister or the Chairman of the Coal Board or any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister or the Chairman may, by notice in writing—
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a ) require any person who deals or has dealt in coal or coke to produce for inspection, at any reasonable hour in the day time, his books and records showing the dealings by him in coal or coke since the date of the commencement of these Regulations, and to answer any questions in relation thereto put by the person making the inspection; or(
b ) require any person to furnish to the Board a statutory declaration stating—(i) whether he has, since the date of the commencement of these Regulations, received or supplied any coal or coke; and, if so,
(ii) the name of the person or persons from or to whom any coal or coke was received or supplied; and
(iii) the date or dates upon which any coal or coke was received or supplied; and
(iv) the quantities of coal or coke received or supplied.
“(2.) Any person who fails to complywith any requirement made in pursuance of this Regulation shallbe guilty of an offence.”
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