War Precautions (Coal Tar) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 32.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT

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 War Precautions Act 1914–1916, to come into operation on the twelfth day of March, 1917.

Dated this fourteenth day of February, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G.F.PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

_________

War Precautions (Coal Tar) Regulations 1916.

1. Regulation 8 of the War Precautious (Coal Tar) Regulations is amended by omitting, from sub-regulation (2) thereof, after the word “cases,” the word “of” and inserting in its stead the word “or.”

2. The War Precautions (Coal Tar) Regulations are amended by adding, at the end thereof, the following Regulation: —

Treatment and disposal of light oils.

“11.—(1) No person, firm, or municipal or other authority engaged in any way in the treatment or rectification of light oils produced from the distillation of coal tar at or below the temperature of 170 degrees Centigrade, shall carry out that treatment or rectification except in accordance with the provisions of a licence granted under the authority of the Minister, and signed by a person duly authorized in that behalf by the Minister.

“(2) No person, firm, or municipal or other authority who produces such light oils shall assign, sell, or otherwise dispose of such light oils except to a person, firm, company, or corporation to whom or which a licence to acquire or purchase light oils, signed by aperson authorized in that behalf by the Minister, has been granted.

“(3) The Minister or any person thereto authorized by him may, at any time, revoke any licence granted in pursuance of this Regulation.

“(4) Applications for licences under this Regulation shall be addressed to the Director of Munitions, Collins House, Collins-street, Melbourne.”

________________________________

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

C.1986.—Price 3d.