FREIGHT ARRANGEMENTS.
No. 20 of 1917.
An Act to amend the Freight Arrangements Act 1915.
[Assented to 13th September, 1917.]
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, commencement and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Freight Arrangements Act 1917, and shall be deemed to have commenced on the thirteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
(2.) The Freight Arrangements Act 1915 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Freight Arrangements Act 1915-1917.
Amendment of s 2.
2. Section two of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
“(3.) When in connexion with the arrangements made under this section it is necessary for the carriage of Australian produce that vessels be moved from port to port, arrangements may be made for freight between those ports on produce other than Australian produce, and the cost of those arrangements and all moneys received in connexion with those arrangements may for the purposes of this Act be treated as if the cost were incurred and the moneys were received in respect of Australian produce.”