New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 85

Page 2339

✨ Oil Fuel Emergency Regulations



SEPT. 4.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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$(f)$ To require importers and wholesale distributors of oil fuel to
enter into working agreements with one another for the
pooling of supplies of oil fuel and storage, tank, wagon,
and other equipment and facilities, and for the limitation
of the number of distributors of oil fuel operating in any
area or district or otherwise:

$(g)$ To require oil fuel to be sold according to grade as defined from
time to time and not under any trade brand:

$(h)$ To require any person to furnish from time to time to the
Controller, or as he may direct, such returns, statements,
statistics, or other information relating to oil fuel and the
possession and use thereof and dealing therewith as the
Controller may deem necessary, and to require that any such
information be verified by statutory declaration.

DISTRICT AND SUB-DISTRICT CONTROLLERS.

  1. The Chief Postmaster of each postal district recognized as such
    by the Post and Telegraph Department shall be a District Controller
    for the purposes of these regulations.

  2. Every District Controller shall in respect of his postal district
    have such powers and functions as may from time to time be delegated
    to him under the principal regulations.

  3. Every delegation or direction made or given to any District
    Controller by any Controller who is not the Director-General of the
    Post and Telegraph Department shall be made or given through the
    Director-General.

  4. Every District Controller may appoint such Sub-district Con-
    trollers, and may delegate to them under the principal regulations
    such powers and functions as may from time to time be authorized
    by the Controller through the Director-General of the Post and
    Telegraph Department, or by the Director-General.

PURCHASE OF OIL FUEL BY CONSUMERS.

  1. No person shall purchase in New Zealand any oil fuel for his
    own consumption except in accordance with the terms of a consumer's
    license to purchase issued under these regulations.

  2. Every application for a consumer's license shall be made on
    a form provided by the Controller, and shall be delivered to a Post-
    master.

  3. A separate application is required in respect of every business
    or farm property. The application must be made by the manager
    of the business or property or by his authorized agent, and the
    Controller shall have the right to define what is to be regarded as one
    business or one property and who is to be regarded as the manager
    or the authorized agent of the manager.

  4. Except as hereinafter provided, a consumer's license shall be
    an ordinary license and shall not authorize the purchase of any oil
    fuel except from the vendor named in the license.

  5. On the ground of the purchaser's absence from the place where
    he is ordinarily resident or upon other grounds deemed by the Con-
    troller to be adequate, the Controller may grant a special consumer's
    license to any person. A special license shall authorize the licensee
    to purchase oil fuel from any vendor.



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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
4 September 1939
Regulations, Emergency, Oil Fuel, Public Safety, Definitions, Controller Powers