War Precautions (Coal) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
Regulation under the war precautions ACT 1914-1918.
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-seventh day of August, 1919.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
E. J. RUSSELL,
Acting Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 240 and 252, and by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 103, 119, 141, and 147.)
Regulation 10g of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(3.) Where the Prime Minister has, in pursuance of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, made an order declaring that any contract or agreement for the supply of coal is varied by the substitution, for the price specified in the contract or agreement, of a price higher than the price so specified, he may by order declare—
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a ) that any company which produces gas from coal in respect of which such higher price is payable may, in any then existing contracts or agreements for the sale of gas, increase the price contracted for by an amount not exceeding the amount specified in the order and that the contracts or agreements shall by force of the order be deemed to be varied to the extent of the amount by which the price is so increased; and(
b )that any increase in the price of gas, which does not exceed the amount specified in the order, charged by any company producing gas from coal in respect of which such higher price is payable, shall not be taken to be an alteration of price within the meaning of any State Act which provides for the fixing of the price of gas.
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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