Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Fuel Emergency Act 1977 - SECT 3

Proclamation of a state of emergency in relation to a kind of fuel

3. Proclamation of a state of emergency in relation to a kind of fuel



(1) Where at any time it appears to the Governor in Council that any action
has been taken or is immediately threatened by any person or body of persons
or an event has occurred or is about to occur whereby any kind of fuel is or
is likely to become unavailable to meet the reasonable requirements of the
community and that a state of emergency exists or is likely to exist in
relation to that fuel the Governor in Council may by proclamation published in
the Government Gazette declare that a state of emergency exists in relation to
that fuel.

(2) Any such proclamation in relation to any fuel may be limited therein as to
time place and circumstance.

(3) No such proclamation shall be in force for more than 3 months, without
prejudice to the issue of another proclamation of emergency before at or after
the end of that period.

(4) Any such proclamation may be revoked-

   (a)  by a proclamation of the Governor in Council published in the
        Government Gazette; or

   (b)  by a resolution passed by either House of the Parliament.

(5) If-

   (a)  at the time of the publication in the Government Gazette of any
        proclamation of emergency Parliament is not sitting; and

   (b)  a petition signed by not less than twenty members of the Legislative
        Assembly or by not less than thirty members of Parliament all or any
        of whom are members of the Legislative Council objecting to such
        proclamation and requesting that Parliament should be summoned is
        addressed to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly or the President
        of the Legislative Council-

Parliament shall be summoned to meet as soon as practicable thereafter.