Sulphuric Acid Bounty
No. 63 of 1969
An Act to amend the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954–1966.
[Assented to 12 September 1969]
BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1969.
(2.) The Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954–1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954–1969.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.
Definitions.
3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from the definition of “the bounty period” the word “sixty-nine” and inserting in its stead the word “seventy”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:—
“(4.) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, specify a date, being a date before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, but not before the date on which the Proclamation is published in the Gazette, as the date on which bounty shall cease to be payable.
“(5.) Where a Proclamation has been made under the last preceding sub-section, then, for the purposes of this Act, the period from and including the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, to and including the date specified in the Proclamation shall be deemed to be, and at all times from the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, to have been, substituted for the period referred to in the definition of ‘the bounty period’ in sub-section (1.) of this section.”.
Application of regulations.
4. The regulations made for the purposes of section 8 of the Principal Act that were in force immediately before the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, apply in relation to bounty that becomes payable during the year commencing on that date or, if a Proclamation is made under sub-section (4.) of section 4 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, during the period commencing on that date and ending on the date specified by the Proclamation, as the case may be, but may be amended, in so far as they so apply, by regulations made under section 23 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.