Fuel Emergency Act 1977

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.

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

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.

Any such proclamation may be revoked—

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

by a resolution passed by either House of the Parliament.

If—

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

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—