Ship
Construction Bounty Amendment Act 1980
No. 40 of 1980
An
Act to amend section 8 of the Ship
Construction Bounty Act 1975
[Assented to 23 May 1980]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Ship Construction Bounty Amendment Act 1980.
(2) The Ship Construction Bounty Act 1975is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on 1 July 1980.
Specification
of bounty
3. Section 8 of the
Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following
sub-section:
“(4)
Bounty is not payable in respect of the construction or modification of a
vessel unless the last day for the lodging of public tenders in response to a
call for public tenders under section 4 in respect of that construction or
modification is a date earlier than 1 July 1980.”.