Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RAW COTTON BOUNTY ACT 1963-1969.*

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 Raw Cotton Bounty Act 1963-1969.

Dated this twenty-second day of May, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd) Malcolm Scott

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

Amendments of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations†

Definitions.

1. Regulation 2 of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) A reference in these Regulations to the Collector for the State in which a ginnery is situated or in which premises are or are to be situated shall, in a case where (he ginnery is situated or the premises are or are to be situated in the Northern Territory of Australia, be read as a reference to the Collector for the Northern Territory of Australia.”.

Notice of intention to claim bounty.

2. Regulation 4 of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “produced” and inserting in its stead the word “processed”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “production” and inserting in its stead the word “processing”.

Application for bounty.

3.—(1.) Regulation 5 of the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “sold” and inserting in its stead the word “processed”;

(b) by adding at the end of sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “and”;

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (v) of that paragraph the word “sale” and inserting in its stead the word “processing”;

(d) by omitting sub-paragraphs (vi) and (vii) of that paragraph; and

(e) by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “sold” and inserting in its stead the word “processed”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

† Statutory Rules 1964, No. 31 and 1967, No. 152.

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Schedule.

4.—(1.) The Schedule to the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended by omitting from Forms 1 and 2 the words “the State of”.

(2.) The Schedule to the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended by omitting from Form 2 the words “sold for use in Australia, being raw cotton produced”and inserting in their stead the word “processed”.

(3.) The Schedule to the Raw Cotton Bounty Regulations is amended by omitting Form 3 and inserting in its stead the following Form:—

Form 3.

Regulation 5.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Raw Cotton Bounty Act.

APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY.

To the Collector of Customs                       for

(a) Insert name and address of processor.

(b) Insert address of ginnery.

(c) Strike out whichever is not applicable.

I, (a)     , hereby make a claim for bounty under the Raw Cotton Bounty Act 1963-1969 in respect of raw cotton processed, at the ginnery situated at(b)                                          , in the quarter(c)/year that ended on the                                                                                    , 19              , from seed cotton harvested in Australia and delivered to the ginnery on or after the first day of January, 1964.

The particulars of each bale of raw cotton to which this application relates are contained in the documents accompanying this application.

DECLARATION BY PROCESSOR OR HIS AUTHORIZED AGENT.

(d) Insert name, address and occupation of person declaring.

(e) Insert “processor” or “authorized agent of the processor”, whichever is applicable.

I, (d)    , hereby declare—

1. That I am the(e)    of the raw cotton specified in the foregoing application for bounty.

2. That the particulars set out in the foregoing application and in the documents accompanying that application are true and correct.

3. That the raw cotton specified in the foregoing application was of good and merchantable quality, was of a grade higher than the grade known as “strict good ordinary” and was processed, at the ginnery specified in the application, on or after the first day of March, 1968.

4. That 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 of the processor to bounty has been forfeited or taken away.

5. That 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 raw cotton specified in the foregoing application.

Declared at      this                                day of                                          , 19              .

(f) Signature of person declaring.

(g) Signature of witness.

(h) Address and occupation of witness.

(f)

(g)

(h)

Application.

4. The amendments of the Raw Colton Bounty Regulations effected by these Regulations do not apply to or in relation to raw cotton processed before the first day of March, 1968.

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