MUNITIONS MANUFACTURE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 83, 6 October 1915, Page 7

MUNITIONS MANUFACTURE

IMPORTANT PROVISIONS. The War Regulations Bill (No. 2) which has been introduced into the House of Representatives, provides important extensions of the previous measure. The term "military supplies" is made to include all goods, wares, or merchandise which the Minister of Defence thinks requisite for the use of His Majesty for any purpose in connection with the present war, and the Minister of Defence may, by notice in writing, demand any military supplies from the owner or occupier of any factory or ■workshop which is adapted, or which may by reasonable expenditure be adapted, for the manufacture or production of the military supplies so demanded. The delivery of any such requisition shall be deemed •to constitute a contract between the Crown and the owner or occupier to whom it has been so delivered, and the owner shall be bound accordingly to manufacture or produce and sell and deliver to the Minister for Defence the military supplies so demanded. The price payable by the Crown for the supplies so requisitioned shall, in default of agreement between the seller and the Minister for Defence, be determined by the arbitration of a Judge of the Supreme Court, and the Governor may by Order in Council make such regulations as he deems necessary with respect to the procedure > on such arbitration. If the owner or occupier of a factory or workshop refuses or fails to fulfil his obligations the Minister may take possession of Chat factory or workshop, and use the same as the agent of the owner or occupier.