SUGAR
BOUNTY.
No. 4 of 1903.
An Act to provide for a Bounty to Growers
of Sugar-Cane and Beet.
[Assented
to 30th July, 1903]
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 Sugar Bounty Act 1903.
Bounty
on white grown sugar-cane or beet.
2. There
shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is hereby
appropriated accordingly, to every grower of sugar-cane or beet within the
Commonwealth in the production of which sugar-cane or beet white labour only
has been employed after the twenty-eighth day of February One thousand nine
hundred and three, or for a period of twelve months immediately preceding the
delivery thereof for manufacture, a bounty, at the rates provided by this Act,
on all such sugarcane or beet delivered for manufacture after the commencement
of this Act and before the first day of January One thousand nine hundred and
seven.
Provided
that no bounty shall be paid in respect of the production of sugar on land
which has been cultivated by other than white labour after a bounty has been
paid in respect of the production of sugar thereon.
Provided
that nothing in this section shall authorize the payment of any bounty for any
sugar-cane or beet in respect of which any planting has been done by other than
white labour after the twenty-eighth day of February One thousand nine hundred
and three.
Calculation
of bounty on sugar-cane.
3.The bounty in the case
of sugar-cane shall be at the rate of four shillings per ton calculated on cane
giving ten per cent. of sugar, and shall be increased or reduced
proportionately according to any variation from this standard.
Calculation
of bounty on beet.
4.The bounty in the case
of beet shall be at the rate of forty shillings per ton on the sugar-giving
contents of the beet.
Ascertainment
of sugar-giving contents.
5.It may be prescribed by
Regulation that the average sugar-giving contents of the sugar-cane or beet in
any particular district shall for the purposes of this Act be taken to be the
sugar-giving contents of each lot of sugar-cane or beet in that district.
Allowance
of bounties.
6.All bounties shall be
allowed at the time of the delivery of the sugar-cane or beet for manufacture
upon the ascertainment in manner prescribed of the sugar-giving contents.
Rebates
to be deemed to be bounties.
7. All
rebates of excise duty on sugar paid before the commencement of this Act shall
be taken to have been paid as bounties under this Act.
Regulations.
8.—(1.) 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 are necessary or convenient to be
prescribed for giving effect to this Act.
(2.) All Regulations so made shall—
(a) be notified in the Gazette;
(b) take effect from the date of notification, or from a later date to
be specified in the Regulations; and
(c) be laid before both Houses of the Parliament within seven days
after notification if the Parliament is then sitting, and if not then within
seven days after the next meeting of the Parliament.
(3.) If either House of the Parliament, within
fifteen sitting days after such Regulations have been laid before it, passes a
resolution disallowing any Regulation, that Regulation shall thereupon cease to
have effect.
Application
of Regulations in respect of rebates.
9.Subject to any such Regulations,
the Regulations with respect to rebate of excise duty on sugar-cane, made in
exercise of the powers conferred by the Excise
Act 1901 and the Excise Tariff 1902