Section 6

prohibiting, either absolutely or subject to prescribed conditions, the purchase or sale of any controlled article without the Controller’s written permission;

prohibiting, regulating or controlling the import or export of any controlled article;

prohibiting, regulating or controlling the movement of any controlled article;

limiting wholesale or retail dealing in any controlled article to persons that hold licences or permits therefor as the regulations may prescribe;

restricting the sale of any controlled article either by any individual or generally by all persons dealing in the article in any manner as the Minister may consider fit;

prohibiting, restricting or otherwise regulating or controlling the manufacture or production of any controlled article either generally or as regards form, shape, quantity, quality, constituents or otherwise;

regulating and controlling the rationing of any rationed article and, without prejudice to such general power, providing for the registration of all or any persons, or any class or classes of persons, for the purposes of the rationing and for the issue of registration cards, ration cards and other ration documents;

appointing enumerators to enumerate the public for the purposes of registration and rationing;

regulating the distribution or use of any controlled article;

requiring controlled articles to be kept only at places that the Controller may direct and prescribing the manner in which controlled articles are to be stored;

limiting the quantity of any controlled article which may be acquired or held by any person;

providing for the keeping of books of accounts and other records relating to any trade or business in the course of which controlled articles are sold, and prescribing the manner in which the books or records must be disposed of or preserved;

prescribing the period and fees to be paid in respect of the issue or renewal of any licence to sell controlled articles;

providing for exemption from all or any of the provisions of this Act or any regulations made under this Act; and

prescribing any forms that the Minister may think necessary for use in connection with any of the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (n).

notice of a motion is given for a sitting day of Parliament not later than the first available sitting day after one month from the date the regulations are so presented; and

a resolution is passed pursuant to the motion to annul the regulations or any part of the regulations from a specified date,the regulations or that part of the regulations (as the case may be) become void from that date, but without affecting the validity of anything previously done thereunder, or the making of new regulations.