Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Amendment Act 1983 (Cth)

Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Amendment Act 1983

No. 146 of 1983

An Act to amend the Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Act 1983

[Assented to 22 December 1983]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Amendment Act 1983.

(2) The Bounty (Room Air Conditioners) Act 19831is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “1983” from the definition of “bounty period” and substituting “1984”.

Limit of available bounty

4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) “$1,500,000” and substituting “$3,000,000”.

 

Power to require persons to answer questions and produce documents

5. Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) “A Collector” and substituting “Subject to sub-section (1a), a Collector”;

(b) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section—

“(1a) A notice under sub-section (1) in relation to a bountiable air conditioner shall not be given to a person who purchased the bountiable air conditioner for use in providing a room with conditioned air.”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-section (3) “produces an account, book, document or record in pursuance of a notice under sub-section (1) that, to the knowledge of that person” and substituting “, in pursuance of a notice under sub-section (1), produces an account, book, document or record kept, made or prepared by another person that, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person”.

 

NOTE

1. No. 10, 1983.