Metal Working Machine Tools Bounty Amendment Act 1978 (Cth)

METAL WORKING MACHINE TOOLS BOUNTY AMENDMENT ACT 1978

No. 156 of 1978

An Act to amend section 6 of the Metal Working Machine Tools Bounty Act 1972.

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

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Metal Working Machine Tools Bounty Amendment Act 1978.

(2) The Metal Working Machine Tools Bounty Act 1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 25 May 1978.

Specification of bounty

3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:

“(2a) Bounty is not payable in respect of a machine tool unless the manufacture of the tool was commenced, or undertaken in pursuance of a firm order placed, before 25 May 1978.”.