Wine Export Bounty Act 1928 (Cth)

WINE EXPORT BOUNTY.

 

No. 12 of 1928.

An Act to amend section five of the Wine Export Bounty Act 1924-1927.

[Assented to 22nd May, 1928.]

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 and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Wine Export Bounty Act 1928.

(2.) The Wine Export Bounty Act 1924–1927 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wine Export Bounty Act  1924-1928.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have commenced on the ninth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

Rate of bounty.

3. Section five of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

“5. The rate of bounty payable under this Act on fortified wine exported on or after the ninth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight shall be one shilling per gallon:

Provided that no bounty shall be payable in respect of wine which is not shown, to the satisfaction of the Minister, to be the product of areas planted with vines on or before the thirty-first day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.”.

Existing bounties to apply to existing contracts, and to shipments to Canada.

4. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the rate of bounty payable—

(a) in respect of wine, other than wine the product of the 1928 vintage, shipped in Australia on or before the thirty-first day of December One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in fulfilment of a contract in writing which is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister to have been entered into on or before the eighth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and to be still subsisting;

(b) in respect of wine shipped in Australia on or after the ninth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in respect of which a notice of intention to export was given, as prescribed, on or before the eighth day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight; and

(c) in respect of wine shipped to the Dominion of Canada, which the Minister is satisfied is intended for consumption in that Dominion,

shall, subject to the provisions of the Principal Act, be one shilling and ninepence per gallon.

Act to be construed with Principal Act.

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