Wool Products Bounty Regulations (Cth)

WOOL PRODUCTS BOUNTY REGULATIONS.

Statutory Rules 1951, No. 39.(b)

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wool Products Bounty Regulations.

Definitions.

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

“ producer ” means a producer of wool products ;

“ the Act ” means the Wool Products Bounty Act 1950 ;

“ the Commission ” means, the Australian Wool Realization Commission constituted under the Wool Realization Act 1945-1950.

Prescribed date.

3. The prescribed date referred to in sub-section (1.) of section 5 of the Act is the thirty-first day of December, 1951.

Notice of intention to claim bounty.

4.—(1.) A producer who wishes to claim bounty shall, on or before the twenty-fourth day of August, 1951, furnish to the Commission a notice of intention to claim bounty.

(2.) An application for an advance of bounty which includes the particulars required by this regulation to be contained in a notice of intention to claim bounty shall be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations to be a notice of intention to claim bounty.

(3.) A notice of intention to claim bounty shall include the following particulars :—

(a) the name and address of the producer ;

(b)the date and place of the purchase by the producer of the wool the subject of the notice ;

(c) the name of the buying broker or agent ;

(b) Made under the Wool Products Bounty Act 1950 on 26th April, 1951; notified in Gazette on 10th May, 1951.

 

(d) the name of the selling broker ;

(e) the catalogue number ;

(f) in respect of each lot, the number of the lot, the quantity of wool contained in the lot in bales, fadges or sacks, the weight in pounds and the purchase price per pound.

Advances of bounty.

5.—(1.) Where a producer is in possession of wool and the Commission is satisfied that he intends to manufacture that wool into wool products, the Commission may, upon receiving from the producer an application for an advance of bounty, subject to this regulation, make an advance of bounty on behalf of the Commonwealth to the producer.

(2.) The amount of any advance of bounty or, where more than one advance is made in respect of the same wool, the total amount of such advances, shall not exceed the amount of bounty which, in the opinion of the Commission, would be payable in respect of wool products manufactured from that wool.

Producer not to dispose of wool after advance paid.

6. A producer who has received an advance of bounty in respect of wool shall not sell or otherwise dispose of that wool or any portion of that wool unless he has previously—

(a) notified the Commission in writing of his intention so to do; and

(b)repaid to the Commission an amount equal to the amount of the advance or, in the case of the sale or other disposition of a portion of the wool, an amount which bears to the amount of the advance the same proportion as the portion of the wool sold or otherwise disposed of bears to the quantity of wool in respect of which the advance was paid.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

Repayment of advances.

7.—(1.) Where wool in respect of which an advance of bounty has been paid to a producer is damaged, lost, stolen or destroyed before being manufactured into a wool product, an amount equal to the amount of the advance on that wool shall be paid to the Commission by the producer within thirty days of the date of the damage, loss, theft or destruction.

(2.) Where wool in respect of which an advance of bounty has been paid to a producer is not manufactured into a wool product before the thirty-first day of December, 1951, an amount equal to the amount of the advance on that wool shall be paid to the Commission by the producer on or before that date.

(3.) An advance of bounty re-payable to the Commission in accordance with this regulation shall be a debt due to the Commonwealth and may be sued for by the Commonwealth in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Scouring or carbonizing of wool or wool products.

8. A person, not being a producer, who has in his possession wool or wool products on which bounty has been paid, or on which an advance of bounty has been made, shall not subject that wool or those wool products to a process of scouring or carbonizing unless he has first notified the Commission in writing of his intention so to do.

Penalty: One hundred pounds.

 

Notices given &c. before commencement of Regulations.

9.—(1.) Where, before the date of commencement of these Regulations, a producer has furnished to the Commission a notice of intention to claim bounty, or a claim which has been accepted by the Commission as a notice of intention to claim bounty, and bounty has not been paid in accordance with section 7 of the Act, that notice or claim shall be deemed to be a notice of intention to claim bounty furnished in accordance with these Regulations.

(2.) Where, before the date of commencement of these Regulations, an advance of bounty has been made to a producer and bounty in accordance with section 7 of the Act has not been paid to him, that advance shall be deemed to be an advance of bounty made in accordance with these Regulations.

Deduction of advances from bounty.

10. There shall be deducted from the amount of bounty payable to a producer in respect of any wool products the amount of any advance of bounty paid to him in respect of those wool products.