New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 85

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✨ Oil Fuel Emergency Regulations



SEPT. 4.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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  1. Every person who sells any oil fuel to the holder of a special
    consumer's license shall at the time of delivery enter, or cause to be
    entered, on the license the particulars indicated therein relating to
    the sale, and authenticate the entry or cause the entry to be authenticated
    by his signature or that of his servant or agent authorized by
    him in that behalf.

  2. Subject to the provisions of Regulations 26 to 30 hereof, no
    person shall supply oil fuel to any person who acquires the fuel otherwise
    than in pursuance of a consumer's license unless before or at the
    time of supply the person to be supplied produces to the supplier a
    vendor's stock schedule provided by the Controller and unless the
    supplier thereupon makes an entry on that form of the date, the
    quantity supplied, and the source of supply.

  3. Every person who sells any oil fuel to the holder of a consumer's
    license shall in respect of each such holder keep a separate record of
    licensee's purchases on a form provided by the Controller, and shall
    make the appropriate entries thereon in respect of every transaction
    on the day on which the transaction takes place.

  4. Except as provided in Regulation 24 hereof, every person
    required to make a record under these regulations shall retain that
    record at his place of business for a period of one year from the date
    when the last entry therein is made, unless pursuant to any requirement
    of the Controller he is allowed to deliver, and does deliver, it
    to the Controller, and he shall at all times while the record remains
    in his custody allow any person authorized in that behalf by the
    Controller to inspect it at all reasonable times and to make copies
    thereof and extracts therefrom.

  5. Every person being in possession of any storage tank used
    for oil fuel shall at all reasonable times allow any person authorized in
    that behalf by the Controller to inspect the tank and take samples of
    the contents and gauge the contents by dipstick or any other appropriate method.

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS BY VENDORS.

  1. Every vendor of oil fuel to the holders of consumers' licenses
    shall--

(a) Within seven days after the end of each month, deliver to the
Controller his vendor's issue schedule and his vendor's
stock schedule, showing all entries required by these
regulations to be made thereon during that month :
(b) Return each record of licensee's purchases to the Controller
forthwith after it is filled.

IMPORTATION OF OIL FUEL.

  1. Every consignee of oil fuel to be imported into New Zealand,
    and every owner and agent of a vessel known to him to be on the
    water bound for New Zealand carrying oil fuel as cargo, shall as soon
    as possible give notice in writing to the Controller of the name of the
    vessel and, so far as is known to the person giving the notice, the
    quantity and kind of oil fuel borne as cargo, the port of origin thereof,
    the route of the vessel, her first port of destination in New Zealand,
    and the expected date of her arrival.


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