Wire Netting Bounty Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 22.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRE NETTING BOUNTY ACTS 1939.*

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 Wire Netting Bounty Acts 1939.

Dated this Thirty First Day of January, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendments of the Wire Netting Bounty Regulations.†

1. After regulation 8 of the Wire Netting Bounty Regulations the following regulation is added:—

Return for Parliament.

“9. The return referred to in section 21 of the Act shall, in addition to setting forth the particulars specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section (2.) of that section, set forth—

(a) whether each manufacturer in a locality in which standard rates of wages or conditions of employment have been prescribed or declared in pursuance of section 9a of the Act who has been paid bounty has observed, in respect of the persons employed by him in the manufacture of wire netting in respect of the production of which the bounty was paid, rates of wages and conditions of employment not less favorable to the persons so employed than the rates and conditions so prescribed or declared; and

(b) where the rates or conditions so prescribed or declared have not been observed, the extent to which non-observance has occurred, the amount of bounty (if any) withheld for that reason, and what action (if any) has been taken by the manufacturer to compensate the persons so employed in respect of his failure to observe those rates and conditions.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1940.

† Statutory Rules 1939, No. 125.

22.—6/19.1.1940.—Price 3d.

Forms 3.

2. Form 3 in the Schedule to the Wire Netting Bounty Regulations is repealed and the following Form inserted in its stead:—

“Reg. 6.           Form 3.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Wire Netting Bounty Acts 1939.

APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY.

Note. —This form, when filled in, should be forwarded to the Collector of Customs.

(a) Insert name and address of manufacturer.

(a)           

hereby applies for bounty in respect of the wire netting described hereunder, the production of which was completed by that manufacturer in the factory situated at                                           during the month (s) of                                                                                    ,19  .

Statutory Declaration.

(b) Insert full name, address and occupation of declarant.

I, (b)           do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

(c) Insert ‘‘manufacturer” or “authorized agent of the manufacturer”, whichever is applicable.

(1) I am the (c) of the wire netting specified in the foregoing application for bounty.

(2) The wire netting was produced in premises appointed by the Minister of State for Trade and Customs as a factory for the purposes of the Wire Netting Bounty Acts 1939.

(3) The description of the wire netting, and all the particulars relating thereto, set out in the foregoing application for bounty, are true and correct in every particular.

(4) The wire netting was produced exclusively from Australian materials.

(5) The wire netting was produced for sale for use in the Commonwealth.

(6) The wire netting is of good and merchantable quality.

(d) This paragraph should be omitted if no rates and conditions have been prescribed or declared in the locality in which the wire netting was manufactured.

(7) (d) The rates of wages and conditions of employment observed by the manufacturer in respect of the persons employed in the production of the wire netting were not less favorable to the persons so employed than the rates and conditions prescribed or declared in pursuance of section 9a of the Wire Netting Bounty Acts 1939.

(8) 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 manufacturer to bounty in respect of the wire netting has been forfeited or taken away.

(9) 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 wire netting.

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1911 conscientiously believing the statements contained therein to be true in every particular.

(e) Signature of declarant.

(e)

Declared at    this   day of    , 19

Before me—

(f) Signature of person before whom the declaration is made.

(g) Insert title of person before whom declaration is made.

(f)

(g)

Note. —Any person who wilfully makes a false statement in a statutory declaration is guilty of an indictable offence, and is liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for four years.

This declaration may be made before a Police, Stipendiary or Special Magistrate; Justice of the Peace; Commissioner for Affidavits; Commissioner for Declarations; or a Notary Public.”.

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.