TRACTOR BOUNTY.

No. 40 of 1956.

An Act to amend the Tractor Bounty Act 1939–1953.

[Assented to 27th June, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Tractor Bounty Act 1956.

(2.) The Tractor Bounty Act 1939–1953 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Tractor Bounty Act 1939–1956.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

3. Section two of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of the definition of “tractor” the words “, but does not include a crawler tractor”.

Specification of bounty.

4. Section six of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(2.) The bounty under this Act shall also be payable in respect of tractors which, during a period of three years commencing on the twenty-fourth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, have been produced in a factory in accordance with the prescribed conditions for sale for use in the Commonwealth or a Territory of the Commonwealth.”.