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HEAVY PENALTIES

FOR “BLACKMARKET” OPERATORS UP TO FOURTEEN YEARS’ PENAL SERVITUDE. MORE DRASTIC REGULATIONS IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.33 a.m.) RUGBY, March 11. Strict defence' regulations, .dealing with “black markets,” were announced in the House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, including the raising of the maximum penalty to imprisonment for twelve months, on a summary conviction, and fourteen years’ penal servitude, on an indictment. In the absence of special circumstances, the fine imposed must equal the benefit derived from the offence, but the maximum fine is not limited to the amount of profit. Mr Morrison added that the new regulations also contain provision for dealing with the man behind the scenes, who, though he organises the profits from illicit transactions, keeps so far in the background that hitherto it has been difficult or impracticable to bring him to justice. In future the onus will be placed on these shy profiteers of explaining their conduct to the Court.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4

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HEAVY PENALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4

HEAVY PENALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1942, Page 4

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