Wheat Acquisition Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

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 National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this nineteenth day of May, 1941.

Governor General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendment of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations.

After regulation 29 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Averment of prosecution.

“29b. In any prosecution for an offence against the National Security Act 1939-1940 relating to wheat, the averment of the prosecution that, at the date of the commission of the offence alleged, any wheat had been acquired by and was the property of the Commonwealth shall be prima facie evidence of the matter so averred.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 96, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 120, 155 and 180; 1940, Nos. 10, 132, 174, 208 and 271; and 1941, No. 80.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

2420.—15/17.4.1941.—Price 3d.