Iron and Steel Bounty Regulations 1920 (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 122.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IRON AND STEEL BOUNTY ACT 1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Iron and Steel Bounty Act 1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of July, 1920.

R.M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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IRON AND STEEL BOUNTY REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Iron and Steel Bounty Regulations 1920.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Authorized person” means a person appointed in writing by the Minister for Trade and Customs to be an authorized person for the purposes of these regulations;

“Bounty” means bounty under the Act;

“Collector” means Collector of Customs for the State;

“Factory” means premises specified in any notice of intention to claim bounty or claim for bounty given or made under the Act;

“The Act” means the Iron and Steel Bounty Act 1918.

Notice of Intention to Claim Bounty.

3. (1) Notice of intention to claim bounty upon any of the goods specified in the Schedule to the Act shall be given to the Collector by the manufacturer at least thirty days before the claim for bounty is made.

(2) If so requested by a manufacturer the Collector may accept a notice of intention to claim bounty as a continuing notice.

 

Form of Notice.

4. The notice of intention to claim bounty shall be in accordance with the following form:—

Commonwealth of Australia.

The Iron and Steel Bounty Act 1918.

Notice by manufacturer of intention to claim bounty.

This form when filled in to be forwarded to the State Collector of Customs.

State of

To the Collector of Customs.

............................................................................

(a) Here insert kind of goods.

I hereby give notice that I intend to claim bounty in respect of (a) manufactured and to be manufactured in my factory after the first day of October, 1918 *and request that this be accepted as a continuing notice.*

My factory is situated at

Signature of Manufacturer.

Address.

WitnessDate 19

Note.—Words between asterisks may be omitted if desired.

Transferee of Factory may Claim Bounty without Fresh Notice.

5. (1) Where a manufacturer has given a continuing notice of intention to claim bounty in respect of goods manufactured at a factory, and the factory has subsequently become transferred to some other person, the transferee may claim bounty in respect of goods manufactured by him at the factory without a fresh notice of intention to claim bounty being necessary on his part.

(2) A factory shall be deemed to have become transferred where it has passed from one person to another person by act of parties or by operation of law.

Minimum Quantities.

6. A manufacturer shall not be entitled to claim bounty on black steel sheets or on galvanized sheets unless a minimum quantity of 500 tons of black steel sheets or galvanized sheets respectively has been manufactured in his factory after the 1st October, 1918, and before the claim for bounty is made.

Powers of Authorized Person.

7. Any authorized person may, at all reasonable times, enter upon any factory where there are manufactured any goods in respect of which notice of intention to claim bounty has been given, and may inspect the process of manufacture of those goods and the accounts books and documents of the manufacturer for the purposes of examination and audit and of ascertaining and reporting on the cost of production and manufacture of the goods.

Inspection of Process of Manufacture, etc.

8. Where notice of intention to claim bounty has been given in accordance with these regulations, the manufacturer giving the notice shall—

(a) allow any authorized person to have access at all reasonable times to the factory named in the notice, for the purpose of inspecting the process of manufacture of the goods;

(b) provide, when requested by an authorized person so to do, all reasonable facilities and assistance necessary to enable the authorized person to effectively inspect the process of manufacture of the goods;

(c) keep books and accounts showing clearly the cost of production and manufacture of all goods upon which bounty is intended to be claimed, the capital employed in the business and the net profits derived therefrom during each financial year;

(d)produce such books and accounts and the documents relating to entries therein for examination and audit by any authorized person when required by him so to do; and

(e) supply such samples of the goods as the Collector requires.

Form of Claim for Bounty.

9. The claim for bounty shall be in accordance with the following form, and shall be dealt with as shown thereon:—

Commonwealth of Australia.

This form when filled in to be forwarded to the State Collector.

Departmental Registration Number.

(a) Insert name and full address.

(b) Here insert name of goods.

(c) Here insert date of completion of manufacture of the goods in respect of which claim is made.

Dr. to (a)

Financial year 19 State of

The Iron and Steel Bounty Act 1918.

Pursuant to notice of intention to claim, I hereby claim bounty in respect of (b) manufactured by me, at my factory, after the first day of October, 1918, and up to the (c)  The particulars relating to the goods are as

follow:—

Particulars.

Factory situated at.	Weight of goods on which bounty is claimed.	Rate of bounty.	Amount of bounty claimed.
Total pounds shillings pence Signature of Manufacturer— £

Officer’s Certificate.

I certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, after due inquiry, the particulars and statements declared to in the above claim for bounty are true and correct for the purposes of the Iron and Steel Bounty Act 1918, and that the claimant is entitled to bounty on the goods specified in the claim.

Officer of Customs.

19 .

I certify that this account is correct within the meaning of Section 34 of the Audit Act 1901-1917.

Certifying Officer.Date,//

Received on the 19 , from

the sum of pounds

shillings  pence, in full payment of the above account.

Witness to the payment

and signature

Declaration to be Indorsed on Claim for Bounty.

I, of , do hereby declare as follows:—

1. I am the manufacturer of the goods specified in this claim for bounty.

2. The goods were manufactured by me at the factory mentioned in the notice of intention to claim bounty given by .

3. The description of the goods, and the particulars relating thereto, set out in this claim for bounty, are true and correct in every respect.

4. The black steel sheets, if anyspecified in this claim, do not exceed one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness.

5. The whole of the goods specified in this claim for bounty—

(a) were made from Australian iron ore and steel manufactured in Australia, or from such imported sheet bar steel as was authorized under section 3 of the Act, and

(b) are of good and merchantable quality.

6. None of the goods specified in this claim for bounty have been manufactured or supplied, or are intended to be supplied, under a contract containing a term or condition permitting or providing for the deduction of the amount of the bounty or any part thereof from the price or moneys payable for the goods to the manufacturers.

7. Nothing on my part has been done or omitted to be done, and to the best of my knowledge and belief nothing on the part of any other person has been done or omitted to be done, whereby my right to bounty in respect of the goods has been forfeited or taken away.

8. No other claim for bounty has been made nor has any bounty been paid in respect of the goods specified in this claim for bounty.

9. The particulars set out hereunder as to persons employed in my factory in the production of the goods, the hours worked by and the rates of wages paid to them, &c., are true and correct.

10. The said rates and the conditions of employment are in no case below the rates and conditions declared by the President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, under Section 10 (1) of the Act, to be fair and reasonable. (d)

(d) If no rates have been declared by the President, under (a) section 10(1) of the Act to be fair and reason strike out all the words from “rates” (second occurring) to “reasonable” and insert “standard rates and conditions of employment prescribed by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.”

(e) Where there are several employees of one class receiving the same rate of wages it will suffice to insert the number.

Employee.		Hours of labour per week.	Rate of wages paid per hour. (State whether with or without keep.)	Remarks.
(e) Name or Number.	Occupation.

Signature of Manufacturer.

Declared before me at this day of 19

Officer of Customs or J.P.

Order No. 1.

I hereby authorize the amount of this account to be paid to my account at the  Bank of at

Signature of Claimant.

Order No. 2.

I hereby direct that an Order authorizing the bearer thereof to receive the amount of this account be transmitted to me.

Signature of Claimant.

Address.

Directions.

If the Claimant is unable to attend in person at the Department, he may obtain payment by signing one of the above Orders.

By filling up and signing Order No. 1 he may direct the amount to be paid to his credit at any bank in the Commonwealth.

By signing Order No. 2 he may obtain an Order Form by registered post which, when signed by him, may be collected by bearer. This Order will be paid by the Department if the signature thereon agrees with the signature of Claimant on this account.

The Claimant may, if he prefer, issue an order in the form of Order No. 3 of the Treasury Regulations.

Time within which Claim for Bounty is to be Made.

10. The claim for bounty shall be made within thirty days after completion of manufacture, or, with the written permission of the Collector, at regular monthly or quarterly intervals.

Proportion of Bounty Payable when Amount Available not Sufficient to Pay Whole.

11. When the amount available to pay bounty in any one financial year, as determined by the provisions of the Act, is insufficient for payment in full of all duly rendered claims as regards which the Minister is satisfied that the requirements of the Act and Regulations have been complied with, the bounty payable in respect of each such claim shall be in the same ratio to the claim as the sum total available for that period bears to the total of such claims in respect of that period.

12. (1) In relation to any claim for bounty under the Act the Minister may determine the respective amounts which shall for the purposes of the Act be deemed to be the capital employed in the business and the net profits arising therefrom in any financial year.

(2) Every such determination shall be final and not be subject to appeal.

           

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