WOOL (CONTRIBUTORY CHARGE) (No. 2A).

No. 71 of 1950.

An Act to amend the Wool (Contributory Charge) Act (No. 2) 1950, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 14th December, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Wool (Contributory Charge) Act (No. 2a) 1950.

(2.) The Wool (Contributory Charge) Act (No. 2) 1950 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wool (Contributory Charge) Acts (No. 2) 1950.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-sixth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifty.

Increased rate of charge.

3. Section seven of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “percentage” (first occurring), the words “of the sale value of wool other than wool on the skin and skin wool”;

(b) by inserting in sub-section (2.), after the word “charge”, the words “on wool other than wool on the skin and skin wool”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(3.) In this section, ‘skin wool’ means wool obtained from sheepskins, but does not include dead wool.”.

Continuance of regulations.

4.—(1.) The Wool (Contributory Charge) (No. 2) Regulations shall be in force for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act but the reference in those Regulations to the percentage of the sale value of wool for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section seven of the Principal Act shall be read as a reference to the percentage of the sale value of wool other than wool on the skin and skin wool for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section seven of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

(2.) The Regulations referred to in this section may be amended or repealed by regulations made under the Principal Act as amended by this Act.