Sugar Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia.

Department of Trade and Customs,

Melbourne, 8th January, 1903.

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IS Excellency the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Excise Act 1901 and the. Excise Tariff 1902, has been pleased to make the following Regulation.

C. C. KINGSTON,

Minister for Trade and Customs.

New Sugar Regulation.

As to all plantations in respect of which no rebate for the year 1902 has been paid, nothing done before the 1st day of March, 1903, shall prevent any cane grown thereon from being considered white grown cane for the purposes of any subsequent rebate.

But all persons desiring to obtain the benefit of this Regulation must give notice of their intention to claim rebate, as provided by the Regulations, before the 1st day of March, 1903.

In the case of a rebate paid under this Regulation, the form of declaration to be indorsed on the rebate note shall contain, in lieu of paragraph 3 of the form of declaration prescribed in Regulation 8 of the Sugar Regulations of 28th July, 1902, the following paragraph :—

“3. All this cane was white grown cane, in that it was cane in respect of which white labour only has been employed after the 1st March, 1903, from and including the preparation of the ground for planting, up to and including delivery at the mill for manufacture, and was grown on a plantation in respect of which no rebate for the year 1902 has been paid.”