War Precautions (Prices) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 224.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1916.

I, SIR ARTHUR LYULPH STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation under the War Precautions Act 1914-1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eleventh day of September, 1917.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1916, No. 155, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 188 and 286, and Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 2 and 5.)

After Regulation fifteen of the War Precautions (Prices) Regulations, the following Regulation is inserted:—

Offering higher price for wholesale purchase.

“15a. Any person who in any proclaimed area, whether by way of premium or otherwise howsoever, purchases or offers to purchase wholesale any foodstuffs or necessary commodities at a greater price than the maximum price fixed by or under these Regulations for the sale wholesale of those foodstuffs or necessary commodities in that area shall be guilty of an offence.”

 

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C.12097.—Price 3d.