PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1915.
I, SIR ARTHUR 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, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the War Precautions Act 1914-1915 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this twelfth day of April, 1916.
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Defence.
Amendment of War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations 1916 (Statutory Rules 1916, No. 40, as Amended by Statutory Rules 1916, No. 46).
The War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations are amended—
(a) by inserting therein after Regulation 9 the following regulation:—
Governor- General may proclaim areas and fix prices.
“9a. Notwithstanding anything contained in the last two preceding regulations the Governor-General may, without any recommendation of the Board—
(а) declare any area to be a proclaimed area for the purposes of these Regulations, and
(b) fix the price of bread or flour in any proclaimed area”; and
(b) by omitting therefrom Regulation 7a and substituting the following Regulation in its stead:—
Returns by flourmillers and bakers.
“7a.—(1) Every flourmiller shall, within the time fixed by sub-regulation (2) of this regulation, supply to the Board a return in accordance with Form A, and verified by statutory declaration, and every baker shall, within the time fixed by sub-regulation (2) of this regulation, supply to the Board a return in accordance with Form B and verified by statutory declaration.
“(2) the time within which returns shall be supplied to the Board in pursuance of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall be—
(a) for flourmillers and bakers in the State of Western Australia—twenty-eight days, and
(b) for flourmillers and bakers in other States—twenty-one days”; and
(c) by omitting paragraph (f) of the schedule thereto and substituting the following paragraph in its stead:—
“(f) The area comprised within a radius of twenty miles from the General Post Office, Perth, in the State of Western Australia.”
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