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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 85

15. The licensee under a consumer’s license shall keep his license
    in safe custody and shall not assign, transfer, or lend it, or part with
    the possession of it, to any person otherwise than by placing it in the
    custody of his servant or agent for a purpose connected with these
    regulations.

16. It shall be the duty of every licensee holding a special consumer’s
    license, upon every delivery of oil fuel to the licensee, to procure the
    particulars indicated in the license relating thereto, to be entered and
    authenticated by the vendor by means of the vendor’s signature, or
    that of the vendor’s servant or agent authorized by the vendor in
    that behalf.

17. Upon the return to the authority that granted it of a consumer’s
    license mutilated or rendered illegible, or upon proof to the satisfac-
    tion of that authority, by statutory declaration or otherwise, that a
    license has been destroyed, stolen, or lost, and upon payment (in either
    case) of a fee of 2s. 6d., that authority may, on the application of
    the licensee, issue a duplicate license, which shall bear the word
    “Duplicate” thereon and which shall be of the same effect as the
    original license.

18. No person having purchased oil fuel under a consumer’s license
    shall sell that fuel or any part thereof or use it otherwise than for the
    purpose or respective purposes set out in his application. In any
    proceedings for a breach of this regulation any oil fuel in the possession
    of any person charged shall be deemed to have been acquired under
    a consumer’s license until the person charged affords proof to the
    contrary.

DISPOSAL OF OIL FUEL.

19. All oil fuel held by any person in New Zealand upon the coming
    into force of these regulations, and all oil fuel imported into or pro-
    duced in New Zealand after the coming into force of these regulations
    (except oil fuel in bunkers intended for consumption by the ship that
    carries it), shall be at the disposal of the Controller.

20. Notwithstanding the terms of any contract entered into before
    or after the coming into force of these regulations, no person shall
    purchase or sell any oil fuel at the disposal of the Controller except
    either in accordance with the terms of a permit to purchase or sell
    granted to him by the Controller or in accordance with the terms of a
    consumer’s license issued to the purchaser. In any proceedings for
    a breach of this regulation the oil fuel in question shall be deemed to
    be oil fuel at the disposal of the Controller until the person charged
    affords proof to the contrary.

21. The exercise by any person of any powers of disposition over oil
    fuel shall be deemed to be a sale thereof, notwithstanding that the
    oil fuel may not be within the ownership or possession of that person.

22. No person shall sell any oil fuel to the holder of a consumer’s
    license unless the license is produced to him by the licensee on every
    occasion of such sale, and unless he makes at the time of every such
    sale an entry of the number of the license, the date of the transaction,
    and the quantity of oil fuel sold on a vendor’s issue schedule provided
    by the Controller, and procures the entry to be verified by the
    signature of the licensee or his servant or agent.