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(2) The Minister may authorize any person or persons to carry on the whole or any part of a controlled undertaking in accordance with directions given by the Minister. Any such directions may fix the price or remuneration to be paid for any goods produced or supplied, or services rendered, by the undertaking while it is being so carried on, whether or not that price or remuneration has previously been fixed or limited under any other enactment.

(3) Any person or persons authorized by the Minister under the last preceding clause to carry on the whole or any part of an undertaking shall, while so doing, be deemed to be acting as the agent or agents of the proprietor of the undertaking, except that the proprietor shall not have any right to control the carrying-on of the undertaking or the part of the undertaking, as the case may be.

(4) While the whole or any part of an undertaking is being carried on by any person or persons authorized by the Minister so to do under clause (2) of this regulation, the proprietor of the undertaking shall not be bound or, as the case may be, shall not in respect of such matters as may be specified in any directions given by the Minister be bound by any obligation or limitation imposed on the proprietor by or by virtue of any Act or other instrument determining his or its functions or powers.

(5) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this regulation, any person or persons authorized by the Minister under clause (2) of this regulation to carry on the whole or any part of an undertaking may dismiss any servants of the proprietor of the undertaking and may, in respect of any premises used or appropriated for the purposes of the undertaking, restrict the rights of any person or persons to have access thereto.

(6) Any person or persons authorized by the Minister under clause (2) of this regulation to carry on the whole or any part of an undertaking shall be entitled to receive remuneration, at a rate or rates to be fixed by the Minister, out of the funds of the undertaking.

REGULATION 4.—REQUISITION OR PURCHASE OF PROPERTY.

(1) The Minister may from time to time, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient so to do for the effectual exercise of any of the powers or functions conferred upon him or upon any Controller by the principal regulations, take possession of, or requisition, any land, buildings, parts of buildings, or goods, and may give such directions as appear to him to be expedient in connection with the taking of possession of that land or of those buildings, parts of buildings, or goods.

(2) Where the Minister is in possession of, or requisitions, any property under this regulation, he may use or deal with, or authorize the use of or dealing with, the property for such purpose and in such manner, notwithstanding any restriction imposed on the use thereof (whether by any Act or other instrument or otherwise), as he thinks necessary or expedient for the effectual exercise of any of the powers or functions conferred upon him or upon any Controller by the principal regulations, and may hold, and use, and, in the case of goods, sell or otherwise dispose of, the property as if he were the owner thereof and as if the property were free from any mortgage, pledge, lien, or other similar obligation.

(3) Any person who is the owner of any property or who has any mortgage, pledge, lien, or other security thereover or who has any other title thereto shall, if he suffers loss by the exercise in respect of that property of any of the powers conferred by this regulation, be entitled to compensation in respect of that loss out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose. The amount of the compensation shall be ascertained in the manner provided by Regulation 9 of the principal regulations.

(4) The Minister, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the effectual exercise of his powers under clause (1) of this regulation so to do, may, by notice given as respects the whole of New Zealand or any part thereof, require all persons in the area to which the notice applies who, on such date as may be specified in the notice, have or had in their possession or control or on order by them such goods as may be described in the notice to furnish to the Minister or to a Controller or to such other person as may be specified in the notice, such information and particulars in relation to the goods at such time and in such form and manner as may be directed by the notice, and may direct that no person shall remove any such goods or cause or permit them to be removed until such date as may be specified in the notice or until the removal of the goods is permitted by the Minister or by a Controller or by such other person as may be specified in the notice.