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Levy on scheduled imports.

Regulations.

Appointment of officers.

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(c) resists or obstructs the Controller or any other person in the exercise of the powers conferred or in the discharge of the duties imposed on the Controller or such other person by or under this Ordinance,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

15. If the Governor in Council shall so order there shall be paid by the importer of any scheduled commodity a levy on such imports, at such rates and in such manner as shall be specified in the order; and there may be paid from the proceeds of such levy such expenses incurred in connexion with the maintenance of stocks of the commodity in question, including contributions towards the costs of such maintenance incurred by licensed importers, as may be approved by the Governor in Council.

16. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to the prin- ciples and provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) the Governor in Council may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters :--

(a) all matters stated or required in this Ordinance to be prescribed;

(b) the letting, occupation and use, for the storage of stocks or reserves of scheduled commodities of any granary, warehouse, godown or other premises belonging to the Crown;

(c) the storage of stocks or reserves of scheduled com- modities in private premises;

(d) the sale or disposal of stocks or reserves of scheduled commodities purchased by the Controller, or of any quantity of a scheduled commodity forfeited under this Ordinance;

(e) the issue and form of permits to import scheduled commodities, the conditions attached thereto and the period for which such permits shall be in force;

(f) appeals to the Governor in Council under this Ordin- ance, the time within which such appeals shall be preferred;

(g) the registration of importers of scheduled com- modities and of the stores of such importers;

(h) the form of books and registers to be kept by registered importers, the particulars to be entered therein, and the forms of all returns and declarations required to be made for the purposes of this Ordinance;

(i) the collection and management of any levy on scheduled imports;

() all matters incidental to or connected with the matters specifically referred to in this sub-section.

17.-(1) The Governor may appoint any persons, by name or office, to be Deputy or Assistant Controllers for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) The Controller may authorize any Deputy or Assist- ant Controller to exercise and perform any power or duty conferred or imposed upon the Controller by or under this Ordinance.

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SCHEDULE

OF

COMMODITIES DEEMED ESSENTIAL FOR THE VITAL NEEDS OF

THE COMMUNITY DURING WAR OR

OTHER PUBLIC EMERGENCY.

1. Rice.

[s. 3.]

Objects and Reasons.

1. It is considered essential that during war and on other occasions of public emergency provision should be made for the maintenance of reserve stocks of commodities which are essential for the vital needs of the community.

2. This Bill, which follows generally the lines of the Ceylon Essential Commodities Reserves Ordinance, No. 5 of 1939, with such modifications as are considered necessary to adapt it to local circumstances, will apply in the first instance to rice; but provision is made for the scheduling of other essential commodities as occasion may require.

3. The Bill will implement, as it does not repeal, the provisions of the Rice Ordinance, No. 20 of 1919.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

October, 1939.