Wheat Bounty Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 17.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WHEAT BOUNTY ACT 1934.*

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 Wheat Bounty Act 1934.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of February, 1935.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

For the Minister of State for Commerce.

 

Wheat Bounty Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wheat Bounty Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“bounty” means bounty payable under the Wheat Bounty Act 1934;

“prescribed officer”, in relation to a State, means such officer of the State or such other person as is authorized by the Governor-in-Council of the State, or by a person thereto authorized by him, to receive claims for bounty from growers of wheat in that State, and, in relation to the Territory, means the Officer-in-Charge, Department of Commerce, Canberra;

“the Territory” means the Territory for the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth.

Manner of payment of bounty.

3. Payment of bounty shall be made in pursuance of a claim made—

(a) where the wheat was grown in a State, to the prescribed officer of that State; and

(b) where the wheat was grown in the Territory, to the prescribed officer for the Territory,

in accordance with such form as the prescribed officer for the State or the Territory, as the case may be, directs.

Treasurer of State to arrange for bank account to be opened.

4.—(1.) For the purposes of the payment of bounty the Treasurer of each State shall arrange for an account to be opened at such bank as he thinks fit.

(2.) All moneys provided by the Commonwealth for the purpose of paying bounty in any State shall be paid into the account opened by the Treasurer of that State in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on February, 1935.

698.—6/25.2.1935—3d.

 

(3.) The account so opened shall be operated on by cheques drawn in such manner as the Treasurer of the State directs and notifies to the bank.

Payment of bounty.

5.—(1.) Payment of bounty to growers of wheat in a State shall be made by cheques drawn on an account opened for that purpose in pursuance of the last preceding regulation.

(2.) Payment of bounty to growers of wheat in the Territory shall be made by the Department of the Treasury on the certificate of the prescribed officer for the Territory.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.