STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 216.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

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 War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of November, 1920.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. M. HUGHES,

for Minister of State for Defence.

Amendment of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations as Amended to this Date.

After regulation 10i of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

“10j.—(1) Where a Special Tribunal, appointed in pursuance of the Industrial Peace Act 1920, made any award or order as to the wages of persons employed in, or in connexion with, the production of coal or coke, the Special Tribunal may make an order varying, to the extent specified in the order, any contract or agreement existing at the date of the award or order, for the supply of coke, or gas.

(2) Where a Special Tribunal has in pursuance of this regulation made an order varying any contract or agreement for the supply of gas by increasing the selling price specified in the contract or agreement, any increase in the price of gas charged in pursuance of the order shall not be taken to be an increase or alteration of price within, the meaning of any State Act which provides for the fixing of the price of gas or provides for a sliding scale in the relation of the dividend payable by the company producing the gas to the price charged by it.”

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