STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 426.

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 Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this sixth day of October, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

Amendments of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations.†

References to Wheat Acquisition Regulations.

1. Any reference in any law to the Wheat Acquisition Regulations shall be read as a reference to the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations.

Citation.

2. Regulation 1 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations and the heading thereto is amended by omitting the words “Wheat Acquisition Regulations” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations”.

Australian Wheat Board.

3. Regulation 3 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (f) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraph:—

“; and (c) one person representing the flour millers of Australia,”.

Meetings of the Board.

4. Regulation 6 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the word “eight” and inserting in its stead the word “five”.

Expropriation of wheat.

5. Regulation 14 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations is amended by omitting the words “declare that any wheat described in the order is acquired by the Commonwealth and that wheat shall thereupon”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on     , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 96, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 120, 155 and 180; 1940, Nos. 10, 132, 174, 208 and 271; 1941, Nos. 80, 110 and 256; and 1942, No. 66.

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and inserting in their stead the words “make provision for the acquisition by the Commonwealth of any wheat described in the order, and that wheat shall, by force of and in accordance with the provisions of the order”.

Compensation.

6. Regulation 19 of the Wheat Acquisition Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (2a.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(2ab.) Where the Board is satisfied that any wheat which has been acquired was harvested in contravention of the provisions of the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations, the Board—

(a) shall not take the surplus proceeds from the disposal of that wheat into account for the purpose of making a recommendation as to the compensation payable in respect of other wheat; and

(b) shall not take the surplus proceeds from the disposal of other wheat into account for the purpose of making a recommendation as to the compensation payable in respect of wheat concerning which the Board is so satisfied.”.

Amendment of The Schedule.

7. The Schedule to the Wheat Acquisition Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Wheat Acquisition Regulations” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations”.

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