Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959

1 For 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”.