Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No. 57.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE RAW COTTON BOUNTY ACT 1940-1946.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Raw Cotton Bounty Act 1940-1946.

Dated this first day of September, 1949.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

BEN. COURTICE

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations. 

Regulation 4 of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Grading of raw cotton.

“ 4.—(1.) For the purposes of the Act and of these Regulations, raw cotton shall be graded into the following grades :—

White Cotton—

Middling Fair.

Strict Good Middling.

Good Middling.

Strict Middling.

Middling.

Strict Low Middling.

Low Middling.

Strict Good Ordinary.

Good Ordinary.

Light Spotted Cotton—

Strict Good Middling Light Spotted.

Good Middling Light Spotted.

Strict Middling Light Spotted.

Middling Light Spotted.

Strict Low Middling Light Spotted.

Low Middling Light Spotted.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th September, 1949.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 32.

3266.—Price 3d.

Spotted Cotton—

Good Middling Spotted.

Strict Middling Spotted.

Middling Spotted.

Strict Low Middling Spotted.

Low Middling Spotted.

“(2.) For the purposes of the Act and these Regulations, raw cotton shall be graded into staple lengths ranging from three-quarters of an inch to one and three-sixteenths of an inch, each staple length being progressively more than the preceding staple length by one thirty-second of one inch.”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.