WOOD PULP AND ROCK PHOSPHATE BOUNTIES.

No. 28 of 1917.

An Act to amend the Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Act 1912.

[Assented to 22nd September, 1917.]

Preamble.

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Act 1917.

(2.) The Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Act 1912 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Act 1912-1917.

Amendment of s. 2.

2. Section two of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “five years” and inserting in their stead the words “ten years”.

Reward for discovery of rock phosphate.

3. Section eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) thereof the words “five years” and inserting in their stead the words “ten years”.

Amendment of the Schedule.

4. The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the second column opposite the words” Rock Phosphate “the words “five years” and inserting in their stead the words “ten years”.