War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations 1918 (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 21st day of September, 1918.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of the War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1918, No. 222, as amended by Statutory Rules 1918, No. 229.)
Regulation 2 of the War Precautions (Consumption of Goods) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(4) Upon the expiration of one month after the commencement of these Regulations the Minister of State for Trade and Customs may, if he thinks fit, direct that upon any day no goods shall, except with his consent in writing, be entered or removed for home consumption under any law of the Commonwealth relating to Customs, Distillation or Excise by any person, firm or company in quantities exceeding one-thirtieth of the normal monthly requirements of that person, firm or company, and any person, firm or company who or which on any day, without the consent in writing of the Minister, enters or removes goods to a greater quantity than the quantity specified in any direction given by the Minister in pursuance of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.”
Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by H. J. Green, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.
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