Sugar Experiment Stations Acts Amendment Act of 1952 (1 Eliz Ii No. 7) (Qld)

552 SUGAR. Sugar Experiment Stations, Etc., Act. 1 E liz . II. No. 7, (6) Provide for use and use and employ on a tramway as aforesaid, including any and every tramway to which section forty-one of this Act applies, such locomotive engines (whether steam engines or engines motivated by any power other than steam), other motive power, and rolling stock to be drawn or propelled thereby as the owner in question deems necessary for the efficient working and use for the purposes .aforesaid of that tramway. This section shall be construed so as not to limit or affect any power or authority conferred upon any owner of a mill under any other Act with respect to any of the matters specified in this section.” 1 E N l o i . z . 7. II. An Act to Amend “The Sugar Experiment Stations T he S ugar E xperiment Acts, 1900 to 1951,” in certain particulars. S tations A cts A mendment [A ssented to 17 th A pril , 1952.] A ct of 1952. E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, B by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— short title 1. This Act may be cited as “ The Sugar Experiment construction. Stations Acts Amendment Act of 1952,” and shall be read as one with * “ The Sugar Experiment Stations Acts, 1900 to 1951,” herein referred to as the Principal Act. Collective The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively tltle‘ cited as “ The Sugar Experiment Stations Acts, 1900 to 1952.” Amendments 2. Section seven of the Principal Act is amended— 0 s‘ " (a) By repealing the first paragraph of the said section seven and by inserting, in lieu of that repealed paragraph, the following paragraphs, namely:— , “ The Minister may, in each and every calendar year, make and levy an assessment on every ton of sugar-cane received at a sugar works during the crushing season, * 64 V. No. 17 and amending Acts.

SUGAR. 1952. Sugar Experiment Stations, Etc., Act. that is to say, during the period of time commenced in the year in question during which sugar-cane is received and crushed at the sugar works. Unless and until the Governor in Council, upon the recommendation of the Board, fixes some other sum, the amount of that assessment shall, in respect of any season, be four pence and one halfpenny per ton upon all sugar-cane received as aforesaid. The Governor in Council may, upon the recommendation of the Board, from time to time fix by Order in Council a sum per ton other than four pence and one halfpenny as the amount of the assessment which may be made and levied as aforesaid and the Minister may, in respect of any and every season occurring while such an Order in Council continues in force, make and levy the assessment thereby authorised. The Governor in Council shall (and may from time to time) by Order in Council make provision for the payment by periodical instalments or otherwise as he deems fit of assessments made and levied under this section and for fixing the time when payment of any such assessment or of any periodical instalment thereof shall be made to the Board by owners of sugar works. Any and every owner of sugar works shall, in the first instance, pay to the Board the amount of any assessment (including the amount of any periodical instalment thereof) made and levied under this section in respect of any season. That payment shall be made— (i.) Upon the actual number of tons of sugar-cane received during the season (or, in the case of such a periodical instalment) during the period in question of the season at his sugar works; and (ii.) At the time fixed by the Governor in Council or (in the case of payment by periodical instalments) at the time so fixed for the payment of the instalment in question.” (b) The second paragraph of the said section seven is amended— (i.) By repealing therein the words “ such assessment ” and by inserting, in lieu of those repealed words, the words and brackets “ any and every such assessment (including any and every instalment of such an assessment) ” ; and 553

554 SUGAR. Sugar Experiment Stations, Etc., Act. 1 E liz . II. No. 7, 1952. (ii.) By repealing therein the words “ of not exceeding one penny and one halfpenny for every ton of sugar-cane so received (c) The third paragraph of the said section seven is repealed and, in lieu of that repealed paragraph, the following paragraph is inserted, namely :— “ Notice of an assessment made and levied, in any year, under this section shall be given to each and every owner of sugar works before the thirty-first day of May of that year.” (d) The fourth paragraph of the said section seven is amended by repealing therein the words “ The amount of every such assessment ” and by inserting, ki lieu of those repealed words, the words “ Any amount not duly paid to the Board of any assessment, or periodical instalment of any assessment, made and levied under this section”. (e) The fifth and last paragraph of (being the proviso to) the said section seven is amended by repealing therein the words “ the amount of such assessment ” and by inserting, in lieu of those repealed words, the words “ the amount of the proportion of any assessment, or periodical instalment of any assessment, made and levied under this section”. Amendment 3. Subsection one of section thirty-two of the of s.32 (1). Principal Act is amended by adding thereto the following proviso, namely:— “ Provided that, unless otherwise specifically provided in an Order in Council made under section seven of this Act, the amount payable by an owner of a sugar mill of any assessment made and levied under this section shall be paid by him to the Board on or before the twenty-eighth day of February next following the date when notice of such assessment shall have been given to him.”