War Precautions (Dairy Produce Pool) Regulations 1918 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 19.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914–1918 AND THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ACT 1919.

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 War Precautions Act 1914–1918 and the Commercial Activities Act 1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-second day of January, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the War Precautions (Dairy Produce Pool) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1918, No. 278, as amended by Statutory Rules 1918, No. 316, and by Statutory Rules 1919, No. 31.)

After regulation 37 of the War Precautions (Dairy Produce Pool) Regulations, which are set out in the First Schedule to the Commercial Activities Act 1919, the following regulations are added:—

Undertaking to re-distribute bonus moneys.

“38. No moneys received by the Committee from the Imperial Government (in this and the next four succeeding regulations referred to as ‘bonus moneys’) shall, after the commencement of this regulation, be distributed to any person, firm, company or association who or which supplied butter or cheese to the Committee, unless and until he or it gives, to the Committee, in a form approved by the Committee, an undertaking in writing that he or it will, subject to regulation 40 of these Regulations, redistribute the moneys to the persons who, during the period in respect of which the money is distributed, supplied milk or cream to the person, firm, company or association, and that each person shall receive an amount proportionate to the quantity of milk and cream supplied by him during that period.

Statement of moneys re-distributed.

“39. A person, firm, company or association, who or which receives any bonus moneys shall, within two months after the receipt of the bonus moneys, furnish, to the Committee, a statement certified by a duly certificated auditor, of the moneys which he or if has redistributed in accordance with the undertaking given in pursuance of the last preceding regulation.

Deduction to cover cost of re-distribution.

“40. Any person, firm, company or association who or which receives any bonus moneys may, before redistributing the bonus moneys in accordance with the undertaking given in pursuance regulation 38 of these Regulations, deduct from the amount bonus moneys received by him or it, to cover the cost of redistribution, a sum not exceeding 5 per centum of the amount of the bonus moneys.

Bonus moneys not re-distributed to be refunded.

“41. Any bonus moneys not redistributed by a person, firm, company or association in accordance with the undertaking given pursuance of regulation 38 of these Regulations shall be repaid the Committee.

Bonus moneys on milled butter.

“42. Where any person, firm, company or association supplied milled butter to the Committee the bonus moneys shall be payable only in respect of such of the milled butter as was placed in the Imperial Government contract and shall be paid to the person firm, company or association who or which supplied the milled butter to the Committee.”

 

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