No. 216/1940:

SCRAP IRON (PROHIBITION OF EXPORT) ORDER, 1940.

SCRAP IRON (PROHIBITION OF EXPORT) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Scrap Iron (Control of Export) Act, 1938 (No. 6 of 1938), that the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, whenever and so often as he thinks proper, by order prohibit the export of all or any classes or class of scrap iron otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under that Act, and may so prohibit such export either for so long as such order is in force or for a specified period or for two or more specified discontinuous periods :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said section 2 that the said Minister may, whenever and so often as he thinks proper, by order prohibit the export of all or any classes or class of scrap steel otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under that Act, and may so prohibit such export either for so long as such order is in force or for a specified period or for two or more specified discontinuous periods :

NOW, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of the Scrap Iron (Control of Export) Act, 1938 (No. 6 of 1938), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Scrap Iron (Prohibition of Export) Order, 1940.

2. The export of all classes of scrap iron and scrap steel otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued under the Scrap Iron (Control of Export) Act, 1938 (No. 6 of 1938), is hereby prohibited for a period of twelve months from the 1st day of July, 1940.

Given under the official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 21st day of June, 1940.

(Signed) R. C. FERGUSON, Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.