WHEAT SUBSIDY.
No. 17 of 1944.
An Act to provide for the Granting of
Assistance to Wheat-growers.
[Assented to 6th April, 1944.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia,
as follows:—
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Wheat Subsidy Act 1944.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Definition.
3.In this Act, unless the contrary intention
appears—
“wheat-grower”, in relation to any wheat delivered in pursuance of
the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations, means a person licensed
under the National Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations to grow
wheat, and includes the legal personal representative of a person (since deceased),
or the trustee of the estate of any person, so licensed, who sowed the wheat
from which the wheat so delivered was grown.
Subsidy
to wheat-growers.
4.There shall be applied, in accordance with this
Act, in making payments to wheat-growers, in respect of wheat sown in the year One
thousand nine hundred and forty-two and in each subsequent year, such amounts
as are appropriated by the Parliament for the purpose of assistance to the
wheat industry.
Basis
of distribution.
5.—(1.) Payments to wheat-growers under this Act in
respect of wheat sown in any year shall (subject to such modifications as
appear to the Minister to be just and equitable for the purpose of meeting the
special circumstances of cases where the Minister is satisfied that two or more
persons have operated together in the growing of wheat) be allocated so as to
ensure to each wheat-grower a standard minimum aggregate return, calculated in
accordance with the next succeeding sub-section, in respect of a standard quota
of three thousand bushels of wheat delivered in pursuance of the National
Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations or in respect of such lesser quantity
of wheat as is so delivered.
(2.) The
standard minimum aggregate return shall be calculated on a basis per bushel for
bagged wheat at growers’ sidings—
(a)in the case of wheat sown in the year One thousand nine hundred
and forty-two—of four shillings; and
(b)in the case of wheat sown in any subsequent year—of four shillings
and one penny and one-third of one penny.
(3.) This
Act shall not apply to wheat sown or harvested in contravention of the National
Security (Wheat Industry Stabilization) Regulations.
Payments
to be made by Australian Wheat Board.
6. Subject to the directions of the Minister,
payments under this Act shall be made by the Australian Wheat Board,
constituted under the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations.
Regulations.
7.