Commonwealth legislation

Commercial Activities (Sugar) Regulations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

54 of 1920

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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These regulations impose a legal maximum price for grade 1A sugar in Australia (post‑WWI): sellers may not charge more than sixpence (6d) per pound plus delivery costs unless they have written permission from the Treasurer, and selling above the cap without permission is a criminal offence. Sugar bought from the Commonwealth on or before 25 March 1920 is subject to a lower cap of threepence‑halfpenny (3.5d) per pound plus delivery. The rule aims to curb postwar price gouging and protect consumers.

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Commercial Activities (Sugar) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 54.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ACT 1919.

I, SIR WILLIAM HILL IRVINE, Deputy of the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commercial Activities Act 1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March, 1920.

W. H. IRVINE,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

The Commercial Activities (Sugar) Regulations.

These Regulations may be cited as the Commercial Activities (Sugar) Regulations.
For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Commercial Activities Act 1919, the prescribed price at which sugar of the grade knows as 1A may be sold is sixpence per pound, plus such sum as represents the cost incurred by the vendor in respect of the delivery of the sugar to him.
Any person who, without the consent in writing of the Treasurer, sells or offers for sale any such sugar at a greater price than the price fixed by the last preceding regulation, shall be guilty of an offence.
These Regulations do not authorize the sale, at a higher price than threepence halfpenny per pound, plus such sum as represents the cost incurred by the vendor in respect of the delivery of the sugar to him, of any sugar purchased from the Commonwealth, whether by the vendor or by any other person, on or before the date of the making of these Regulations.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

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