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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Amending Regulations relating to the Export of Timber.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of February, 1919.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations contained in Part II of the Schedule to an Order in Council of the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, imposing restrictions upon the export of timber from New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

1. IN these regulations “the principal regulations” mean the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the 6th day of August, 1918.

2. (1.) Before finally determining with respect to any sawmill the quantity of sawn timber of any kind or grade required for use in New Zealand in any period, pursuant to clause 5 of the principal regulations, the Minister, or the Board by the direction of the Minister, may give to the proprietor or manager of the sawmill a provisional notice setting forth—

(a.) The quantity of such timber proposed to be required for use in New Zealand; and

(b.) The quantity of such timber proposed to be made available for export from New Zealand.

(2.) A notice under the last preceding subclause shall require the proprietor or manager of the sawmill to which it relates to furnish to the Board within fourteen days, or such longer period as may be appointed in that behalf, particulars as to the quantity of timber (being the production of the sawmill during the period to which the notice relates) that is intended to be exported.

(3.) On receipt of such particulars, or if such particulars are not received by the Board within the time limited in that behalf, the Minister shall proceed to determine, with respect to the several sawmills affected, the quantity of timber required to be reserved for use in New Zealand pursuant to clause 5 of the principal regulations, and in such determination shall have regard to the returns furnished under this clause.

3. (1.) As soon as practicable after the Minister has fixed, with respect to any sawmill, the quantity of sawn timber of any kind or grade that may be required for use in New Zealand in any period, the Board of Trade may issue a permit authorizing the export from New Zealand of any sawn timber produced at the sawmill during that period in excess of the quantity so required for use in New Zealand.

(2.) A permit under this clause may authorize the export of a definite quantity of timber, or may authorize in general terms the export of a specified percentage of the timber produced at the sawmill during the period to which the permit relates.

(3.) The Board may, if it thinks fit, on the issue of any permit as aforesaid, or at any time thereafter, fix a period within which the same must be exercised, and if the permit is not exercised within the period so appointed, or within such extended period as the Board may allow in that behalf, the Board may, if it thinks fit, cancel the permit.

(4.) On the cancellation of any permit as aforesaid the Minister may make such adjustment (if any) as he thinks fit with respect to the quantities of timber required to be reserved for use in New Zealand from other sawmills.

4. After a notice has been given fixing the quantity of timber of any kind or grade required to be reserved from any sawmill for use in New Zealand, it shall not be lawful for any person (whether a sawmiller or not) to export sawn timber of that kind or grade, being the production of that sawmill (whether produced before or after the delivery of the notice), except pursuant to a permit issued in that behalf by the Board of Trade.

5. (1.) Every person who, after the commencement of this Order in Council, proposes to export any timber of a kind or grade to which a notice under the principal regulations applies shall produce to the Collector of Customs at the port of shipment the permit to export such timber, and shall furnish to the Collector—

(a.) Particulars as to the quantity, kind, and grade of timber proposed to be exported;

(b.) Particulars as to the sawmill at which the timber was produced; and

(c.) A declaration under the Customs Act, 1913, that the proposed export is in conformity with the Timber Regulations and with the permit of the Board of Trade.

(2.) The Collector of Customs shall thereupon endorse on the permit particulars as to the quantity, kind, and grade of timber exported, the date of the shipment, the name and address of the shipper and the name of the vessel, and shall then return the permit to the shipper.

6. All permits heretofore issued by a Collector of Customs under the principal regulations and before the commencement of this Order in Council shall be deemed for all purposes to have been issued by the Board of Trade under these regulations.

7. Clauses 6 and 7 of the principal regulations are hereby revoked.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.