STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 171.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DAIRYING
INDUSTRY ASSISTANCE ACT 1942.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the Dairying Industry Assistance
Act 1942.
Dated
this twenty-ninth day of June, 1943.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister
of State for Commerce and Agriculture.
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Dairying Industry Assistance Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Dairying Industry Assistance Regulations.
Allocation
of amount appropriated.
2.—(1.) The amount
appropriated by the Dairying Industry
Assistance Act 1942 shall be allocated in making payments, subject to these
Regulations, to primary producers at the rate of Six shillings and eight pence
per hundredweight of butter, and Four shillings per hundredweight of cheese,
produced during the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1943,
from dairy produce supplied by those primary producers.
(2.) If, after payments at the
rates provided by the last preceding sub-regulation have been made to all
primary producers entitled thereto, there remains any balance of the amount
appropriated by the Dairying Industry
Assistance Act 1942, the Minister may authorize the making of additional
payments to primary producers in respect of butter and cheese produced during
the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1943, at such rates as
will exhaust that balance.
Method
of making payments.
3.—(1.) The Minister may
authorize the payment of amounts payable to primary producers under these
Regulations, through such body or bodies as he determines, to persons
controlling butter or cheese factories for distribution to primary producers.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette
on ,
1943.
2787.—Price 3d. 27/2.6.1943.
(2.) Any person to whom any money
is paid under the last preceding sub-regulation for payment to primary
producers shall distribute the money to those primary producers and shall not otherwise
pay or distribute that money.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
(3.) Until any money paid under
this regulation to any body or person is distributed to the primary producers
entitled thereto, it shall be deemed to be money held in trust for the
Commonwealth.
Payments
to be made only to contributors to equalization schemes.
4. No payment shall
(unless the Minister, in any particular case, otherwise directs) be made under
these Regulations to a primary producer unless the primary producer is a
contributor to a dairy produce equalization scheme approved by the Minister.
Sharefarmers.
5. Where any primary
producers entitled to any payment under these Regulations are sharefarmers, the
payment shall be divided between them on the basis provided by the sharefarming
agreement for the division of receipts from their sharefarming operations or,
if no such basis is so provided, on such basis as the Minister determines.
Audit.
6. The accounts of bodies
through which payments are made under these Regulations, and the accounts of
persons controlling butter or cheese factories to whom payments are made under
these Regulations for distribution to primary producers, shall, so far as those
accounts relate to such payments, be subject to audit by the Auditor-General.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government
Printer, Canberra.