Pyrites Bounty Act 1971 (Cth)

Pyrites Bounty

No. 96 of 1971

An Act to amend the Pyrites Bounty Act 1960–1970.

[Assented to 17 November 1971]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Pyrites Bounty Act 1971.

(2.) The Pyrites Bounty Act 1960–1970, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Pyrites Bounty Act 1960–1971.

Commencement.

2.This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.

Interpretation.

3. Section 3 of the Pyrites Bounty Act 1960–1970 is amended—

(a)by omitting from the definition of “the bounty period” in sub-section (1.) the words “December, One thousand nine hundred and seventy” and inserting in their stead the words “May, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two”;

(b)by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “December, One thousand nine hundred and seventy” and inserting in their stead the words “May, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two”;

(c) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “, and at all times from the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, to have been,”; and

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(5.) If a Proclamation is not made under sub-section (2.) of this section, the period commencing on the first day of April, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, and ending on the thirty-first day of May in that year shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be a quarter.”.