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Liquid Fuel Emergency Act 1984 No. 5 of 1984 - SECT 19
Minister may direct release or sale of liquid fuel
19. (1) During a period of national liquid fuel emergency, the Minister may,
for the purpose of dealing with a shortage or likely shortage of relevant
liquid fuel, by instrument in writing served upon a relevant fuel industry
corporation, give to the corporation a direction that the corporation, in the
course of its trading or commercial activities, shall take such measures as
are necessary to make a specified quantity of liquid fuel of a specified kind
available for purchase on or before such date as is specified in the
instrument at such place as is specified in the instrument by a specified
person or specified persons or by persons who are included in a specified
class of persons.
(2) A direction given under sub-section (1) to a relevant fuel industry
corporation concerning a liquid fuel of a specified kind, may provide that the
price at which that fuel is to be made available to a person in accordance
with that direction shall be such price as is agreed upon by the corporation
and that person or, in the absence of agreement, as is determined by a person
nominated by the Minister, by instrument in writing, for the purpose.
(3) A relevant fuel industry corporation shall not refuse or fail, without
reasonable excuse, to comply with a direction given to it under sub-section
(1).
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