STATUTORY RULES.
1963. No. 25
REGULATIONS UNDER THE SULPHURIC ACID BOUNTY ACT 1954-1960.*
WHEREAS by sub-section (1.) of section 8 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960 it is provided that the rate of bounty in respect of any sulphuric acid is the rate applicable to that sulphuric acid fixed by, or ascertained in accordance with, regulations made from time to time under that Act, after inquiry and report by the Tariff Board:
And whereas the Tariff Board has, after inquiry, made a report to the Minister of State for Trade dated the fifth day of October, 1962, containing recommendations with respect to the rates of bounty under that Act:
Now therefore 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 Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960.
Dated this fifteenth day of March, 1963.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Denham Henty
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendment of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations.†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1961.
Interpretation.
2. Regulation 2 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1.) the following definitions:—
‘‘ ‘ the landed cost per ton’, in relation to crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter, means the amount ascertained by dividing the total cost of all crude brimstone imported into Australia in that quarter by the number of tons of crude brimstone so imported;
“ ‘ total cost’ means such amount as the Minister determines to be the sum in Australian currency of all costs (including insurance and external freight but not including duty) incurred in the importation to the wharf at the port of importation of all crude brimstone imported into Australia.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st March, 1963.
† Statutory Rules 1955, No. 4, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 55; 1960, No. 104; and 1961, No. 121.
700/63.—Price 3d. 9/24.1.1963.
Prescribed materials.
3. Regulation 3 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“ (2.) Sinter gas produced in the course of the sintering of lead concentrate is a prescribed material for the purposes of section 6 of the Act.”.
Rates of bounty.
4. Regulation 4 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“ (2.) The rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of one hundred per centum produced at a factory in a quarter from sinter gas is—
(a) where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in the quarter is Sixteen pounds—One pound two shillings per ton;
(b) where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in the quarter exceeds Sixteen pounds—a rate per ton ascertained by deducting from an amount of One pound two shillings an amount of One shilling and nine pence for each amount of Five shillings or part of Five shillings by which the landed cost per ton exceeds Sixteen pounds; or
(c) where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in the quarter is less than Sixteen pounds—a rate per ton ascertained by adding to an amount of One pound two shillings an amount of One shilling and nine pence for each amount of Five shillings or part of Five shillings by which the landed cost per ton is less than Sixteen pounds.
“ (3.) The rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of less than one hundred per centum produced at a factory in a quarter from sinter gas is such amount per ton as bears the same proportion to One pound two shillings as the strength of the sulphuric acid, expressed as a percentage, bears to one hundred.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.