STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 96.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1915.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, 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 eighteenth day of May, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

For the Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations 1916 (Statutory Rules 1916, No. 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1916, Nos. 46, 53, and 62).

Amendment of Regulation 8.

1. Regulation 8 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations is amended by omitting, from sub-regulation (1) thereof, the words “the Schedule” and inserting in their stead the words “the First Schedule.”

Amendment of Regulation 9a.

2. Regulation 9a of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) thereof the word “and”; and

(b) by inserting therein, after paragraph (b), the following paragraph:—

“and (c) declare that, as regards any proclaimed area, any price fixed by or under these Regulations shall after a date specified by him, cease to be the maximum price at which flour, bread, bran or pollard may be sold or offered for sale in that area.”

Amendment of Schedule of proclaimed areas.

3. The Schedule of proclaimed areas to the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the heading “The Schedule” and inserting in its stead the heading “The First Schedule.”

C.6387.—Price 3d.

Amendment of Schedule of Forms.

4. The Schedule of Forms to the War Precautions (Price Adjustment) Regulations is amended by omitting therefrom the heading “The Schedule” and inserting in its stead the heading “The Second Schedule.”

5. After Regulation 12 of the War Precautions (Prices Adjustment) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

“Freight on Sugar.

Determination of freight on sugar.

“13.—(1) The Governor-General may, from time to time, on the recommendation of the Board, determine the maximum freight which may be charged on the carriage of refined sugar from any port in Australia to any other port in Australia.

“(2) Any such determination shall be published in the Gazette, and shall from the date specified in the Gazette have the force of law.

“(3) Until the Governor-General makes any determination in pursuance of sub-regulation (1) of this Regulation, the maximum freight which may be charged on the carriage of refined sugar from any port in Australia to any other port in Australia shall be the maximum freight which was charged during the year One thousand nine hundred and fifteen on the carriage of refined sugar from the first mentioned port to the last mentioned port.

Receipt of freight greater than the maximum freight.

“14. Any person who charges or receives, for the carriage of refined sugar from any port in Australia to any other port in Australia, freight greater than that fixed under these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence.”

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