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OVERSEAS TRADE CONTROL

Validity Of Scheme Challenged REGULATIONS MAY BE ULTRA VIRES ACTUAL MEANING OF ACT NOT CONVEYED? (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 15. The validity of the Government regulations affecting the control of overseas trade was challenged by Mr Gainor Jackson at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce in a discussion in which representatives of importers and local manufacturers took part.

The Chamber decided to refer the matter to the Associated Chambers for an opinion whether the regulations were ultra vires, and to seek further information from the Government whether the restrictions were a matter of temporary expediency, or part of a long-range plan of economy. Mr Jackson said that, while Section 46 of the Customs Act, 1913, gave the Minister power to prohibit the importation of any goods, his power was specially limited by qualifications that appeared in the same section, which must be read as a whole for the intention of the Government that passed the Act to be fully understood. The regulations, however, now being made under this Act, although they imparted into a preamble the exact wording of the- Customs Act giving the Governor General in Council the power to prohibit the importation into New Zealand of any goods, the prohibition of import or which was in the best interests of the country, did not, in his opinion, convey the actual meaning. _ “I would like to make the viewpoint of the manufacturers perfectly clear,” said Mr H. W. Shove, manufacturers’ representative on the council in course of the discussion “There is opportunity in the present legislation for the Government to assist certain industries. The position is, however, that if manufacturers, under the protection of these regulations, expand their industries by the injection of more capital and the employment of more hands they must be entitled to some permanency of protection.”

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Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 6

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OVERSEAS TRADE CONTROL Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 6

OVERSEAS TRADE CONTROL Southland Times, Issue 23693, 16 December 1938, Page 6