Ministry of Food (Continuance) Act 1920
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1920 c. 47 |
| Year | 1920 |
Ministry of Food (Continuance) Act, 1920.
(10 & 11 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 47.
An Act to continue temporarily the office of Food Controller and to make further provision with respect to his powers, and for purposes in connexion therewith.
[16th August 1920]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Continuation of office of Food Controller.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of the New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916 , so far as they relate to the Food Controller or the Ministry of Food, shall, notwithstanding anything in that or any other Act, continue in force until the first day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-two:
Provided that—
(a ) the purposes of the Ministry of Food shall, in lieu of the purposes specified in section three of the New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916, or in any other provisions relating to the purposes for or in relation to which any of the powers of the Food Controller may be exercised, be the maintenance and augmentation of the food supply of the country, and the regulation in the public interest of the treatment, distribution, and prices of food; and
(b ) nothing in this section shall be deemed to continue any power of making regulations under the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Act, 1914 .
(2) The Food Controller shall, after the passing of this Act during the continuance of his office, have and exercise all the powers possessed by him, at the time of the passing of this Act, under the regulations referred to in the Schedule to this Act, which regulations, so far as they relate to the powers of the Food Controller, shall, subject to the limitations set out in that Schedule, have effect as though set out in this Act, and shall cease to have effect as regulations made under any enactment relating to the Defence of the Realm.
Any orders made by the Food Controller under any of the said regulations and in force at the date of the passing of this Act shall, unless or until varied or revoked, continue in force and have effect as if made under the powers conferred by this Act.
(3) His Majesty may by Order in Council provide—
(a ) for the transfer of all or any of the powers of the Food Controller under this Act to some other Government Department or Departments if it appears to him that those powers could be more satisfactorily exercised by that Department or those Departments if so transferred; and
(b ) for the discontinuance of all or any of the powers of the Food Controller before the date fixed by this Act if it appears to him that the exercise of those powers is no longer necessary; and
(c ) on the cessation of the office of Food Controller and the Ministry of Food, for the vesting and transfer in and to any Government Department or Departments of any property, rights, and liabilities held, enjoyed, or incurred by the Food Controller.
(4) The Food Controller may sue and be sued by that name.
2 Penalties.
(1) If after the passing of this Act any person is guilty of an offence or a summary offence under any of the regulations specified in the Schedule to this Act or against...
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