High Court of Australia
ves 2 ee te R S28
— 69 C.L.R.] OF AUSTRALIA. 457
(HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.)
STENHOUSE e F : Se . . APPLICANT ; AND
COLEMAN AND ANOTHER. : 3 . ResponpENts.
ON REMOVAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
_ National Security—Defence—Bread—Manufacture and distribution—Licence—Regu- eG: Geeks _—* lation Validity —Order—Necessity—Discretion of Minister—National Security 1944, Act 1939-1943 (No. 15 of 1939—No. 38 of 1943), s. 5—National Security (General) = GA Regulations 1939-1943 (S.R. 1939 No. 87—1943 No. 278), reg. 59—Bread SYDNEY, Industry (New South Wales) Order. Nov. 16;
The provisions of reg. 59 of the National Security (General) Regulations, De 6-
empowering a Minister, so far as it appears to him to be necessary in the Latham oa, interests of the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of Rigi Starke, the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the com. Williams JJ.
munity, to make an order regulating, restricting or prohibiting the production,
+ movement, . . . distribution, sale, purchase . . . of articles appearing to the Minister to be essential for the defence of the Commonwealth or the efficient prosecution of the war or to be essential to the life of the community, are authorized by s. 5 of the National Security Act 1939-1943, and are within-the defence power of the Commonwealth.
An order by the Minister prohibiting any person from carrying on the business of a master baker or bread distributor or distributing or causing to be distributed any bread in any area to which the Order applies unless he is
the holder of a licence issued under the Order authorizing him so to do, is a valid exercise of the power conferred by reg. 59.
: Cause removed to the High Court under s. 40 of the Judiciary Act 1903-1940,
Section 5 of the National Security Act 1939-1943 provides :— "The Governor-General may make regulations for securing the
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