Urea Bounty Act 1969 (Cth)

Urea Bounty

No. 67 of 1969

An Act to amend the Urea Bounty Act 1966.

[Assented to 12 September 1969]

[Date of commencement 10 October 1969]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Urea Bounty Act 1969.

(2.) The Urea Bounty Act 1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Urea Bounty Act 1966-1969.

2. After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Extension of period in respect of which bounty is payable.

“3a.—(1.) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that a period commencing on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, and terminating on such date as is specified in the Proclamation (being a date not later than the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy) is a period to which this Act applies.

“(2.) At any time before the terminating date specified in a Proclamation made in pursuance of the last preceding sub-section, the Governor-General may, by a further Proclamation, amend the first-mentioned Proclamation by substituting for that terminating date a date earlier than that terminating date, but not earlier than the date on which the further Proclamation is published in the Gazette, and, upon the publication of the further Proclamation in the Gazette, the first-mentioned Proclamation shall have effect, and be deemed at all times to have had effect, as so amended.

 

“(3.) For the purposes of this Act, a period declared in pursuance of this section to be a period to which this Act applies shall be deemed to be, and at all times from the commencement of that period to have been, a period to which this Act applies.”.

Limit of available bounty.

3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b)of sub-section (1.) the word “and” (last occurring); and

(b) by adding at the end of that sub-section the following word and paragraph:—

“; and (d)