Wire Netting Bounty Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 125.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRE NETTING BOUNTY ACT 1939*

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 Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

Dated this twenty first day of October, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Wire Netting Bounty Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wire Netting Bounty Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1939.

Definitions.

3.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“bounty” means bounty under the Act;

“the Act” means the Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939, and, if that Act is at any time amended, includes that Act as so amended.

(2.) In these Regulations, any reference to a Form shall be read as a reference to a Form in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Authorized agents.

4.—(1.) A manufacturer may appoint, in accordance with Form 1, an authorized agent to execute on his behalf any notice, declaration, certificate or other document required for the purposes of the Act or these Regulations, and the authorized agent may execute on behalf of his principal any such notice, declaration, certificate or other document accordingly.

(2.) Any notice, declaration, certificate or other document so executed shall be as effective as if it had been executed by the principal.

Notice of intention to claim bounty.

5. A manufacturer who intends to claim bounty shall furnish to the Collector in the State in which the wire netting has been, or is to be, manufactured a notice of intention to claim bounty in accordance with Form 2—

(a) where he is manufacturing wire netting (on which he intends to claim bounty) during the period of fourteen days after the commencement of these Regulations— within that period; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

6092.—8/16.10.1939.—Price 3d.

(b) where he begins to manufacture wire netting (on which he intends to claim bounty) after that period—at least fourteen days before he begins to manufacture that wire netting.

Form or application for bounty.

6. An application for bounty shall be in accordance with Form 3, and shall be supported by a statutory declaration in accordance with the form contained in that Form.

Time within which applications for bounty are to be made.

7.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, an application for bounty on wire netting, the production of which is completed during any month, shall be lodged with the Collector in the State in which the wire netting has been manufactured within thirty days after the end of that month.

(2.) The Collector may permit applications for bounty in respect of wire netting the production of which has been completed during any period of three months ending on the last day of March, June, September or December, respectively, to be lodged with him within sixty days after the end of that period.

Conditions of manufacture.

8. The materials from which the wire netting is produced shall be stored in the factory separately from other materials.

 

THE SCHEDULE.

Reg. 4. Form 1.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT.

(a) Insert name and address of manufacturer.

(b) Insert full name and description of authorizing officer.

(c) Insert name, address and description of agent.

(d) Signature of authorizing officer.

(e) Signature and address of witness.

(f) Signature of agent.

On behalf of (a) I, (b)  hereby nominate, constitute and appoint (c) (a specimen of whose signature appears hereunder) to be the agent of the above-mentioned manufacturer for the purposes of the Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939 and the Regulations thereunder, and to execute on that manufacturer’s behalf any notice, declaration, or certificate or other document required for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations.

Dated at this day of , 19

(d)

(e)

(f)

 

Reg. 5. Form 2.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

NOTICE BY MANUFACTURER OF INTENTION TO CLAIM BOUNTY.

Note.—This form, when filled in, should be forwarded to the Collector of Customs.

(a) Insert name and address of manufacturer.

(b) Insert full name and description of authorized agent.

(c) Signature of authorized agent.

On behalf of (a) I, (b)  hereby give notice that the above-mentioned manufacturer intends to claim bounty in respect of wire netting manufactured on to be manufactured in the factory situated at  for sale for use in the Commonwealth.

Dated at this day of , 19

(c)

 

Reg. 6. Form 3.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY.

Note.—This form, when filled in, should be forwarded to the Collector of Customs.

(a) Insert name and address of manufacturer.

(a)

hereby applies for bounty in respect of the wire netting described hereunder, the production of which was completed by that manufacturer in the factory situated at during the month (s) of , 19

Quantity of wire netting.	Rate of bounty per ton.	Amount of bounty claimed.
tons.	£.s.d.	£. s.d.
Total..................

Total (in words) pounds shillings pence.

Statutory Declaration.

(b)Insert full name, address and occupation of declarant.

(c) Insert “manufacturer” or “authorized agent of the manufacturer”, whichever is applicable.

I, (b)

do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

(1) I am the (c) of the wire netting specified in the foregoing application for bounty.

(2) The wire netting was produced in premises appointed by the Minister of State for Trade and Customs as a factory for the purposes of the Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

(3) The description of the wire netting, and the particulars relating thereto, set out in the foregoing application for bounty, are true and correct in every particular.

(4) The wire netting was produced exclusively from Australian materials.

(5) The wire netting was produced for sale for use in the Commonwealth.

(6) The whole of the wire netting is of good and merchantable quality.

(7) Nothing on my part has been done or omitted to be done, and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, nothing on the part of any other person has been done or omitted to be done, whereby the right to bounty in respect of the wire netting has been forfeited or taken away.

(8) To the best of my knowledge and belief, no other application for bounty has been made, nor has any bounty been paid, in respect of the wire netting.

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1911 conscientiously believing the statements contained therein to be true in every particular.

(d) Signature of declarant.

(e) Signature of person before whom the declaration is made.

(f) Insert title of person before whom declaration is made.

(d)

Declared at this day of , 19

Before me—

(e)

(f)

Note.—Any person who wilfully makes a false statement in a statutory declaration is guilty of an indictable offence, and is liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for four years.

This declaration may be made before a Police, Stipendiary or Special Magistrate; Justice of the Peace; Commissioner for Affidavits; Commissioner for Declarations; or a Notary Public.

 

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