1For so much of paragraph (1) as precedes sub-paragraph (e) thereof there shall be substituted the following—
“(1)A competent authority may by order provide—
(a)for imposing in respect of the movement, transport, disposal or acquisition of any article situated outside the United Kingdom, or in respect of the re-export of any article from the United Kingdom, or in respect of the construction of ships, such prohibitions or restrictions as appear to the competent authority to be expedient having regard to any agreement or arrangement concluded in respect of defence matters, or any consultations held in respect of such matters, between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the government of any country outside the United Kingdom;
(b)for imposing in respect of the disposal, acquisition or possession of articles of any description under hire-purchase agreements or credit-sale agreements, or under agreements for letting on hire, such prohibitions or restrictions as appear to the competent authority to be required for restricting excessive credit;
(c)for regulating or prohibiting, so far as appears to the competent authority to be required having regard to any scheme administered by any government department for the provision of any welfare food—
(i)the acquisition, treatment, keeping, storage, transport, distribution, disposal, use or consumption of any welfare food other than liquid milk ;
(ii)the disposal, use or consumption of liquid milk ;
(d)where it appears to the competent authority, and is so declared in the order, that a shortage of articles of any description essential to the wellbeing of the community or to national defence, being a shortage such as to threaten that wellbeing or defence, has arisen or is expected as the result of measures taken by the government of any country outside the United Kingdom or as the result of other special circumstances arising in any such country, for regulating or prohibiting the production, treatment, keeping, storage, movement, transport, distribution, disposal, acquisition, use or consumption of any articles of that description or of any substitute for any such article”.
2In paragraph (1F) after the word " shall" in the first place where that word occurs, there shall be inserted the words " in the case of an order made wholly or partly by virtue of sub-paragraph (d) of that paragraph. ".
3In paragraph (5), the words from " and any such " onwards shall be omitted.
4In paragraph (6), in the sub-paragraph commencing "breach of the control", for the words from "any provision" onwards there shall be substituted the words " any provision of any order under this Regulation for the time being in force, being a provision such as is mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph (1) of this Regulation " ; and after the sub-paragraph commencing as aforesaid there shall be inserted the following—
“' credit-sale agreement ' means an agreement for the sale of goods in which the whole or part of the purchase price is payable by instalments, whether the agreement is absolute or conditional;
' hire-purchase agreement ' means an agreement for the bailment of goods under which the bailee may buy the goods or under which the property in the goods will or may pass to the bailee, whether on the performance of any act by the parties to the agreement or any of them or in any other circumstances ;
' welfare food ' means liquid milk, dried milk, concentrated orange juice, cod liver oil or vitamin tablets.”
5At the end of paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following—
“(b)for the reference in sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) to hire-purchase agreements there shall be substituted a reference to contracts to which the Hire Purchase and Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1932, applies by virtue of paragraph (a) of section one of that Act, or would so apply ,if the limitation as to value contained in the said paragraph (a) were omitted ; and so much of paragraph (6) as defines ' hire-purchase agreement' shall not apply.”