War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations 1916 (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATIONS 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 Regulations
under the
Dated this twenty-fifth day of July, 1917.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE,
Minister of State for Defence
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Amendment of the War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations.
(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 3.)
1. The War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations are amended, by adding, after Regulation 3, the following regulations: —
“3a. The Minister may, by notice published in the
Gazette, require any person, firm or company, or class of persons, firms or companies, to deliver to the Director of Munitions, Bank’s Buildings, Bourke-street, Melbourne, such returns, verified by Statutory Declaration, relating to stocks of tins in his or its possession as the Minister thinks necessary.
“3b. (1.) Where any person, firm or company is in possession of tins, that person, firm or company may be required by the Minister, by notice in writing served on the person, firm or company, to permit any other person, firm or company specified in the notice to take delivery at any reasonable hour in the day-time, upon payment or tender at the rate fixed by Sub-Regulation (2.) of this Regulation, of such number or quantity of tins of such description as is specified in the notice.
‘‘(2.) The rate fixed for the supply of tins in pursuance of this Regulation shall be such amount as represents to the person, firm or company supplying them, the cost to him or it of the tins, plus 10 per centum on such cost.
(3.) In default of agreement between the person, firm or company supplying the tins and the person, firm or company taking delivery of them, as to the amount payable by the latter to the former in respect of any tins supplied in pursuance of this Regulation, the amount shall be determined by the Minister.
“(4.) Any person, firm or company who or which, on being required in accordance with this Regulation to permit, any other Person, firm or company to take delivery of any tins, fails to comply with the terms of the requisition shall be guilty of an offence.
“(5.) Tins supplied by any person, firm or company to any other person, firm or company in pursuance of this Regulation shall be deemed to have been sold by the former to the latter at the rate fixed by this Regulation, and no person, firm or company shall, without the consent in writing of the Minister, be entitled to institute or maintain any action or other proceeding in respect of the supply by him or it of the tins.”
2. Regulation 4 of the War Precautions (Tin Plates) Regulations is amended by adding after the word ‘‘consent’’ the words ‘‘or the consent of a person duly authorized in that behalf by the Minister.”
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