STATUTORY RULES.
1964. No. 30.
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REGULATIONS MADE UNDER THE VINYL RESIN BOUNTY ACT 1963.*
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 Vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963.
Dated this twenty-fourth day of February, 1964.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) Denham Henty
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
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VINYL RESIN BOUNTY REGULATIONS.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Vinyl Resin Bounty Regulations.
Interpretation.
2.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“authorized agent” means a person appointed under regulation 3 of these Regulations to be an authorized agent;
“prescribed period” means—
(a) the period that commenced on the fifteenth day of August, 1963, and ended on the thirty-first day of December, 1963;
(b) the period of three months commencing on the first day of January, 1964, and each subsequent consecutive period of three months that occurs before the first day of July, 1966; or
(c) the period that commences on the first day of July, 1966, and ends on the fourteenth day of August, 1966;
“the Act” means the Vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963.
(2.) In these Regulations, a reference to a form by number shall be read as a reference to the form so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th February, 1964.
12000/63.—Price 3d. 10/10.1.1964.
Authorized agents.
3.—(1) A producer may appoint a person to be his authorized agent for the purposes of executing on his behalf a notice, declaration, certificate or document that the producer is required to execute by, or for the purposes of, the Act or these Regulations and the authorized agent may execute, on behalf of the producer, such a notice, declaration, certificate or document.
(2.) Where a notice, declaration, certificate or document referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation has been executed by an authorized agent of a producer, the producer is subject to the same liabilities and penalties as if he had executed that notice, declaration, certificate or document.
(3.) The appointment of an authorized agent shall—
(a) be in accordance with Form 1; and
(b) be lodged with a Collector.
Authorization under section 6 of the Act.
4. An authorization under section 6 of the Act shall—
(a) be in accordance with Form 2; and
(b) be lodged with a Collector.
Applications for bounty.
5.—(1.) An application for bounty in respect of bountiable products shall—
(a) be made in writing;
(b) be lodged with a Collector; and
(c) be accompanied by a declaration by the producer.
(2.) An application referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation shall be lodged—
(a) where the application is made in respect of bountiable products sold or used during the period that commenced on the fifteenth day of August, 1963 and ended on the thirty-first day of December, 1963—on or before the thirty-first day of March, 1964;
(b) where the application is made in respect of bountiable products sold or used during any other prescribed period—within two months after the end of the prescribed period in respect of which the claim is made; or
(c) where the application is made in respect of bountiable products sold or used during a prescribed period referred to in either of the last two preceding paragraphs—within such time additional to that prescribed as the Collector in a particular case may allow.
(3.) A person shall not make a statement in an application referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation that is false or misleading in any material particular.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
(4.) An application referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall set out—
(a) the name and address of the applicant for bounty;
(b) the address of the registered premises at which the bountiable products were produced;
(c) the prescribed period in respect of which the claim for bounty is made;
(d) in relation to the bountiable products—
(i) being vinyl resin, its weight in pounds;
(ii) being latex, the weight of its vinyl resin content in pounds;
(iii) the rate at which bounty is claimed; and
(iv) the amount of bounty claimed;
(e) if such is the case, that none of the bountiable products were produced at premises that were not at the time registered premises or premises that did not subsequently become registered premises;
(f) if such is the case, that the whole of the bountiable products the subject of the claim were of good and merchantable quality;
(g) if such is the case, that nothing has been done or omitted to be done by the applicant and, to the best of his knowledge and belief, nothing has been done or omitted to be done by any other person, whereby the right of the producer to bounty has been forfeited or taken away; and
(h) if such be the case, that to the best of the knowledge and belief of the applicant, no other application for bounty has been made, no bounty has been paid and no advance under section 10 of the Act has been made, in respect of the bountiable products.
(5.) The declaration referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation—
(a) shall contain a statement by the applicant that the particulars set out in the application for bounty are true and correct in every material particular; and
(b) shall be signed by the applicant in the presence of a witness whose address and occupation shall be stated by the applicant.
THE SCHEDULE.
Form 1. Regulation 3.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963.
APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT.
(a) Insert name and address of producer.
(b) Insert name, address and occupation of agent.
To the Collector of Customs for the State of
I, (a) , hereby appoint (b) ,a Specimen of whose signature appears hereunder, to be my authorized agent for the purposes” of the vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963 and the regulations made thereunder.
Dated at the day of ,196 .
(c) Signature of producer.
(d) Signature and address of witness.
(e) Signature of agent.
(c)
(d)
(e)
Form 2. Regulation 4.
Commonwealth of Australia,
Vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963.
AUTHORITY TO RECEIVE BOUNTY.
(a) Insert name and address of producer.
(b) Insert name, address and occupation of person authorized.
To the Collector of Customs for the State of
I, (a) , hereby authorize (b) , a specimen of whose signature appears hereunder, to receive on my behalf, subject to the provisions of the Vinyl Resin Bounty Act 1963 and the regulations made thereunder, all bounty and advances on account of bounty payable to me under that Act.
Dated at the day of , 196 .
(c) Signature of producer.
(d) Signature and address of witness.
(e) Signature of person authorized.
(c)
(d)
(e)
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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.