Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) Act 1947
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Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) Act, 1947
(10 & 11 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 55.
An Act to extend the purposes of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945.
[13th August 1947]
Whereas under the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945, Defence Regulations appearing to His Majesty to be necessary or expedient for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) of section one of that Act (being purposes connected mainly with the orderly transition from war to peace, the maintenance of a sufficiency of supplies essential to the well-being of the community and the allocation of available supplies and services during the transition) were continued in force by virtue of that Act:
And whereas, by reason of the war and the dislocation of trade consequent thereon, supplies and services available are, or are likely shortly to become, insufficient for meeting the essential needs of the community, and it has become necessary that the use of the powers conferred by those Regulations should be directed more particularly to increasing production and redressing the balance of trade:
Now, therefore, 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 Extension of powers under
(1) The Regulations which at the date of the passing of this Act have effect by virtue of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Act, 1945 of section one of that Act, be extended so as to be applicable for the following additional purposes, that is to say:—
(a ) for promoting the productivity of industry, commerce and agriculture;
(b ) for fostering and directing exports and reducing imports, or imports of any classes, from all or any countries and for redressing the balance of trade; and
(c ) generally for ensuring that the whole resources of the community are available for use, and are used, in a manner best calculated to serve the interests of the community;
and accordingly any references in the said Regulations, orders and other instruments to the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) of section one of that Act shall be construed as including references to the purposes aforesaid:
Provided that nothing in this Act shall be held to authorise the suppression or suspension of any newspaper, periodical, book or other publication.
(2) In section three...
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