STATUTORY
RULES.
1961. No. 121.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE SULPHURIC
ACID BOUNTY ACT 1954-1960.*
WHEREAS
by sub-section (1.) of section 8 of the Sulphuric
Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960 it is provided that the rate of bounty in respect
of any sulphuric acid is the rate applicable to that sulphuric acid fixed by,
or ascertained in accordance with, regulations made from time to time under
that Act, after inquiry and report by the Tariff Board:
And
whereas the Tariff Board has, after inquiry, made a report to the Minister of
State for Trade dated the twentieth day of June, 1960, containing
recommendations with respect to the rates of bounty under that act:
Now
therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia,
acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the
following Regulations under the Sulphuric
Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960.
Dated
this 28th day of September, 1961.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister
of State for Customs and Excise.
AMENDMENT
OF THE SULPHURIC ACID BOUNTY REGULATIONS.
Rate
of bounty.
1.—(1.) Regulation 4 of
the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended by inserting after the words
“first day of January, 1961,” the words “not being iron pyrites purchased by
the producer before that day for the purposes of the manufacture of sulphuric
acid by the producer,”.
(2.) This regulation shall be
deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1961.
Rate
of bounty for acid produced from iron pyrites purchased before 1st January,
1961.
2. The rates of bounty
applicable to sulphuric acid produced at a factory from iron pyrites purchased
by the producer before the first day of January, 1961, for the purposes of the
manufacture of sulphuric acid by the producer and received into the factory on
or after that day are, and shall be deemed to have been, the rates of bounty
that would be, or would have been, applicable to the sulphuric acid if the
pyrites had been received into the factory before that day.
Application.
3. These Regulations do
not apply in relation to sulphuric acid produced before the date of
notification of these Regulations in the Gazette
if that application would make applicable to the sulphuric acid a rate of
bounty less than the rate of bounty that would otherwise be applicable to the
sulphuric acid.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on
5th October, 1961.
Statutory Rules 1955, No. 4, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 55; and
1960, No. 104.
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
6460/61.—PRICE
3D. 9/28.7.1961.