Raw Cotton
Bounty
No. 3 of 1965
An Act relating to the Bounty on
the Production of certain Raw Cotton sold for use in Australia.
[Assented
to 12 April, 1965]
[Date of commencement, 10 May, 1965]
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 Raw Cotton Bounty Act 1965.
(2.) The Raw
Cotton Bounty Act 1963 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Raw Cotton Bounty Act
1963-1965.
Definitions.
2. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting after the definition of “grower”
the following definition:—
“‘period
to which this Act applies’ means—
(a) the year that commenced on the first
day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four;
(b) the period commencing on the first
day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, and ending on the
twenty-eighth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six;
(c) the year commencing on the first day
of March, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six; or
(d) each of the two years next succeeding
that year;”; and
(b) by omitting the definition of “year”.
Specification
by bounty.
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (c) and inserting in its stead the
following paragraph:—
“(c) in a period to which this Act
applies, sold by the processor for use in Australia.”.
Rate
of bounty.
4.—(1.) Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended
by omitting from sub-section (2.) the word “year” and inserting in its stead
the words “period to which this Act applies”.
(2.) The notice published in the Gazette on the fourth day of February,
One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, under section 7 of the Principal Act
shall be read as though there were substituted for the words “year commencing
on the first day of January, 1965, and ending on the thirty-first day of
December, 1965” the words “period commencing on the first day of January, 1965,
and ending on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1966”.
Limit
of available bounty.
5. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from
sub-section (1.) the words “year in which bounty is payable” and inserting in
their stead the words “period to which this Act applies”.
Accounts,
&c.
6. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from
sub-section (2.) the words “year in which bounty is payable” and inserting in
their stead the words “period to which this Act applies”.
Return
for Parliament.
7.