STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 115.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE SUGAR BOUNTY ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Sugar Bounty Act 1905 should come into immediate operation and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 18th day of November, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR.

BEET SUGAR BOUNTY REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Beet Sugar Bounty Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these regulations, except where otherwise clearly intended—

“Bounty” means bounty under the Sugar Bounty Act 1905.

“Grower” means a producer of beet.

“The Act” means the Sugar Bounty Act 1905.

The expression “White labour” in these regulations is used to the exclusion of all forms of coloured labour, but subject to the provisions of Sections 10 and 12 of the Act.

Conditions of Claim for Bounty.

3. To sustain a claim for bounty in respect of white-grown beet, the following conditions must have been complied with:—

(1) Notice of intention to claim must have been given within 60 days after the planting of the crop to the Collector of Customs for the State or to any other person who may be authorized by the Minister to receive the notice. Provided that in the case of crops planted before the commencement of these regulations notice of intention to claim bounty shall be so given within 60 days after such commencement, or within such further time as, under special circumstances, the Minister may allow.

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(2) The beet must have been delivered for manufacture at a factory in the district in which it was produced, unless otherwise allowed by the Minister.

(3) The claim for bounty must have been made not later than one month after the date of delivery of the beet for manufacture.

4. In order to obtain the benefit of the proviso to section 5 of the Act, notice of the employment of coloured labour, and of the circumstances which made it unavoidable, with full report of all particulars, must have been given by the grower within ten days thereafter to the Collector or Sub-Collector of Customs at the nearest port.

5. Beet may be considered white-grown beet notwithstanding that, after it has been harvested and delivered for transport to the factory, coloured labour has been employed by some person other than the grower in connexion with its transport to the factory.

Notice of Intention to Claim Bounty.

6. The notice of intention to claim bounty shall be according to the following form, and must be sent in in duplicate:—

Beet Sugar Bounty.

Notice of Intention to claim Bounty for White-grown Beet.

State of Sugar District.

To the Collector of Customs,.................................................

I hereby give notice that I intend to claim bounty in respect of white-grown beet.

The following are the particulars of the white plantation:—

Name of County.	Name of Parish.	Number of Portion.	Area and Description of the White Plantation sufficient to identify it, and specially to distinguish it from any land on which the Claimant may desire to employ Coloured Labour.

I attach a sketch plan showing the area of the white plantation and number of acres planted with beet.

Bounty has*/has not been previously paid in respect of beet grown upon the land specified in this notice.

Witness— Signature of Grower.

Address.

Date.

* Strike out “has” or “has not” as the case requires.

Transferee may Claim Bounty.

7. The right of any grower giving notice of intention to claim bounty shall pass with the legal possession of the white plantation to a transferee without any necessity for a fresh notice; but prior to payment of any bounty to a transferee the Collector shall be satisfied that any person claiming as a transferee is entitled to the legal possession of the plantation.

For the purposes of this regulation transferee shall include any person who by operation of law shall come into legal possession of a plantation.

The Claim for Bounty.

8. The claim for bounty shall be made in accordance with the following form, and shall be dealt with as shown thereon, and delivered to the Excise Officer doing duty in reference to the factory to which the beet was delivered, not later than one month after such delivery:—

The Commonwealth of Australia.

[Departmental Registration Number.]

* Insert name and full address.

Dr. to *

Financial Year 191 /1 . State of

To the Officer of Excise Sugar Factory.

Beet Sugar Bounty Regulations 1910.

Pursuant to notice of intention to claim, I hereby claim Bounty in respect of white-grown Beet grown by me, and delivered at the above factory for manufacture.

Particulars.

White Plantation situated at—	Place where the Beet was Delivered.	Weight Delivered, and on which Bounty is Claimed.			Dates of Delivery.	Rate of Bounty per ton of Beet.	Amount of Bounty Claimed.
		tons	cwt.	qrs.			£	s.	d.
Total—					pounds
	shillings	pence.				£
Signature of Grower—

Officer’s Certificate.

I certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, after due inquiry, the particulars and statements in the above Claim for Bounty are true and correct for the purposes of the Sugar Bounty Act 1905, and that the claimant is entitled to Bounty.

Officer of Customs. Date, / /

I certify that this account is correct within the meaning of Section 34 of the Audit Act 1901.

Certifying Officer. Date, / /

Received on the 19 , from

Esquire, the sum of pounds

shillings and pence, in full payment of the above account,

Witness to the payment and signature

Declaration to be Indorsed on Claim for Bounty.

I, of ,do hereby declare as follows:—

1. The particulars contained in this Claim for Bounty are correct.

2. I am the grower of the Beet specified in this Claim for Bounty.

3. The Beet was grown by me on the white plantation described in the Notice of Intention to Claim Bounty given by me.

4. The Beet has been grown by white labour only, within the meaning of the Sugar Bounty Act 1905.

5. The wages paid to the persons, other than members of my family, employed by me on my white plantation in the production of the Beet, are as shown hereunder, and such wages were in no case below the standard rate of wages paid in this district for similar white labour engaged in the industry.

6. 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 my right to Bounty in respect of the Beet has been forfeited or taken away.

7. No other Claim for Bounty has been made in respect of the Beet specified in this Claim for Bounty.

Employee.		Hours of Labour per Week.	Rate of Wages paid per Week. (State whether with or without keep.)	Remarks.
Name.	Occupation.

Signature of Grower.

Declared before me this day of 19

Officer of Customs or J.P.

Order No. 1.

I hereby authorize the amount of this account to be paid to my account at the Bank of at

Signature of Claimant.

Order No. 2.

I hereby direct that an Order authorizing the bearer thereof to receive the amount of this account be transmitted to me.

Signature of Claimant.

Address.

Directions.

If the Claimant is unable to attend in person at the Department, he may obtain payment by signing one of the above Orders.

By filling up and signing Order No. 1, he may direct the amount to be paid to his credit at any Bank in the Commonwealth.

By signing Order No. 2, he may obtain an Order Form by registered post which, when signed by him, may be collected by bearer. This Order will be paid by the Department if the signature thereon agrees with the signature of Claimant on this account.

The Claimant may, if he prefer, issue an order in the form of Order No. 3 of the Treasury Regulations.

Issue of Bounty Note.

9. On delivery of the beet by the grower to the purchaser thereof at the factory an officer shall—

(a) ascertain the weight of beet fit for manufacture;

(b) deliver to the grower a bounty note based on the weight so ascertained; and

10. The grower, at the end of three days after delivery of the bounty note to him, shall, on making the declaration indorsed on the claim for bounty, and on delivering the same together with the bounty note at the nearest Customs House, or at any other Customs House approved by the Comptroller General of Customs, be entitled to payment of the bounty, and, at the time each payment is made, shall give a discharge in the prescribed form.

Forms of Bounty Note, &c.

11. The forms of bounty note and advice of issue of bounty note shall be as follows:—

Bounty Note.

District.

This is to certify that of has delivered at the Sugar Factory tons cwt. and qrs. of beet for manufacture, which he claims to be white-grown beet, and in respect of which he is entitled three days after this date to receive the sum of pounds shillings and pence for bounty on making the declaration in the form indorsed on the claim for bounty, and on delivering the same together with this note at the Customs House at

Dated the day of

Officer.

Advice of Issue of Bounty Note.

To the Collector/Sub-Collector at the (fill in nearest) Customs House.

I hereby certify that I have issued to a Bounty Note for the sum of pounds shillings and pence in respect of tons cwt. qrs. of beet delivered at the Sugar Factory for manufacture.

Dated the day of , 19

Signature of Officer.

Bounty to be Paid to Grower only.

12. (1) Bounty shall be payable to the grower only.

(2) To secure that bounty shall be so payable—

(a) every claim for bounty, and every bounty note issued in pursuance of a claim for bounty, shall be incapable of assignment;

(b) every bounty note issued in pursuance of a claim for bounty shall be issued to the grower personally, or to some person (approved by the Collector) authorized to receive it on behalf of the grower; and

(c) every bounty note shall be paid only to the grower, or to some bank authorized to receive payment of it on behalf of the grower, or to some person (approved by the Collector) authorized to receive payment of it on behalf of the grower.

(3) Every person (not being the grower or his banker), who receives any money in payment of a bounty note, shall pay such money to the grower personally or to the grower’s credit in a bank to which the grower has authorized him to pay it, and in default of his doing so the grower may recover the amount thereof by action or other appropriate proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Appointment of Agent by Grower.

13. In regard to beet supplied to a Government Sugar Factory, any grower having not more than 5 acres in cultivation may, with the written approval of the Comptroller-General of Customs, comply with any or all of the following requirements of the Act and of these Regulations by an agent lawfully authorized in such regard, viz.:—

(a) the giving of notice of intention to claim bounty,

(b) the certifying to the rates of wages paid to employés,

Districts.

14. Subject to section 6 of the Act, the bounty is intended to be at the rate of Three pounds for every ton of the sugar-giving contents of the beet, and the average sugar-giving contents of beet in the following district shall be taken to be the sugar-giving contents of each lot of beet in such district, namely:—

“Maffra District,” comprising all that district within a radius of 50 miles of the township of Maffra, in the Shire of Maffra, State of Victoria.

Average Sugar-giving Contents of Beet.

15. The average sugar-giving contents of beet produced in the Maffra District, and the consequent rate of bounty per ton of beet shall be deemed to be according to the scale below for the year commencing on the 1st of January, 1911, and for every subsequent year until altered by the Governor-General:—

The Scale.

Average Number of Tons of Beet to make one ton of Sugar.	Average Sugar-giving Contents of Beet.	Rate of Bounty per ton of Beet.
10.........................	10 per cent.............	6s.

The Governor-General, by proclamation published in the Gazette, may before the 1st of November, in the year 1912, or in any succeeding year, alter the scale.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by J. Kemp, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.