PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA BOUNTIES.
No. 7 of 1926.
An Act to provide for the Payment of Bounties
on certain Goods the Produce of the Territory of Papua and on certain Goods the
Produce of the Territory of New Guinea.
[Assented to 15th February, 1926.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and
the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title.
1.This Act may be cited
as the Papua and New Guinea Bounties Act 1926.
Appropriation
for payment of bounty.
2.There shall be payable
out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is hereby appropriated accordingly,
the sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds during the period of ten years
commencing on the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-seven for the payment of bounty in accordance with this Act.
Limit
of total amount of bounties.
3.—(1.) The total amount of the bounty authorized to
be paid in any one year shall not exceed the sum of Twenty-five thousand
pounds.
(2.) Where the maximum amount of bounty which may
be paid in any year has not been paid in that year the unpaid balance or any
part thereof may be paid in any subsequent year in addition to the maximum
amount for that year.
Specification
of bounty.
4.The bounties under this
Act shall be payable on the goods, the produce of the Territory of Papua or the
Territory of New Guinea, which are mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, on
importation into the Commonwealth for home consumption therein from either of
those Territories, provided that—
(a)the goods are imported into the Commonwealth from the Territory of Papua or
the Territory of New Guinea within the period specified in the Schedule to this
Act; and
(b) that the goods have been imported
direct from the Territory in which they were produced.
Certificate
to be supplied by claimant in support of claim.
5.Every claimant of
bounty under this Act shall produce a certificate signed by the principal
officer of Customs at the port of shipment in the country of export that the
goods are the produce of the Territory of Papua or of the Territory of New
Guinea, as the case may be.
Minister may
require Information.
6.The Minister may, in
relation to any claim for bounty under this Act, require such information as to
the correctness of any certificate, or otherwise, as he deems necessary.
Persons
entitled to bounty.
7.No bounty shall be paid
to any person other than the exporter or his authorized agent.
Offences
against Act.
8. No person shall—
(a) obtain any bounty which is not payable;
(b) obtain payment of any bounty by means
of any false or misleading statement; or
(c) present to any officer or other
person doing duty in relation to this Act or the Regulations any document, or
make to any such officer or person .any statement, which is false or misleading
in any particular.
Penalty: One hundred pounds or imprisonment for
twelve months.
Return
to be laid before Parliament.
9. A return setting forth—
(a)the names of all persons to whom bounty was paid during the preceding
financial year; and
(b) the amount of bounty paid to each of those persons,
shall be prepared in the month of July in each year and shall be
laid before both Houses of the Parliament within thirty days after its
preparation, if the Parliament is then sitting, and, if not, then within thirty
days after the next meeting thereof.
Regulations.
10.The
Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act,
prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be
prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving
effect to this Act, and in particular for prescribing the proportion in which
bounty shall be payable to claimants who have complied with the prescribed
conditions, in cases where there is not sufficient money available to pay the
full bounty in respect of all the claims.
THE SCHEDULE.
Description
of Goods. | Rate
of Bounty. | Period. |
1.
Cocoa Beans, raw, whole or broken | l½d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
2. Cocoa Shells, raw.................... | l½d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
3.
Fibres, viz.:— |
(a) Manila and Sisal Hemp
| £6 per ton
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
(b) Coir...............................
| £3 per ton
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
4. Sago, not packed
for household use | 1d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
5. Beans, Vanilla......................... | 2s. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
6. Bamboos and
Rattans, unmanufactured (including clouded)
| £4 per ton
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
7. Spices, Unground,
viz.:— Nutmegs, Mace, Pepper, Cloves and Ginger
| 1½d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
8. Spices, Unground, n.e.i............ | ½d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|
9. Kapok..................................... | 2d. per lb.
| 10 years on and from 1st January,
1927
|