Fuels (Control of Supplies) Act, 1982

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

3.—(1) The following subsection is hereby substituted for subsection (1) of section 3 of the Principal Act:

“(1) Where there is for the time being in force an order under section 2 of this Act the Minister may by order do all or any of the following things—

(a) provide for the regulation or control of the acquisition, supply, distribution or marketing of the type or types of fuel to which the order under section 2 of this Act relates and, where the Minister so thinks proper, for the maintenance and provision of supplies of that type or those types (as the case may be) of fuel;

(b) provide for the control, regulation, restriction or prohibition of the import or the export of the type or types of fuel to which the order under section 2 of this Act relates.”.

(2) Section 3 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4):

“(4A) (a) The Minister may require a person to furnish to the Minister such information as is in the opinion of the Minister necessary in order to enable him to implement an order under this section and is specified in the requirement under this subsection.

(b) A person who fails to comply with a requirement under this subsection shall, for the purposes of section 4 of this Act, be deemed to be a person who knowingly contravenes a provision in an order made by the Minister under this Act.”.