STATUTORY RULES.

1960. No. 104.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SULPHURIC ACID BOUNTY ACT 1954-1960.*

WHEREAS by sub-section (1.) of section 8 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960 it is provided that the rate of the bounty in respect of any sulphuric acid is the rate applicable to that sulphuric acid fixed by, or ascertained in accordance with, regulations made from time to time under that Act, after inquiry and report by the Tariff Board:

And whereas the Tariff Board has, after inquiry, made a report to the Minister of State for Trade dated the twentieth day of June, 1960, containing recommendations with respect to the rates of bounty under that Act:

Now therefore 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 Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960.

Dated this 29th day of December, 1960.

DUNROSSIL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

Amendments of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations.†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1961.

Interpretation.

2. Regulation 2 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the definition of “the Act” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘the Act’ means the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1960.”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the definitions of “the landed cost per ton” and “total cost”.

3. Regulation 3 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prescribed material.

“3. Iron pyrites is a prescribed material for the purposes of section 6 of the Act.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th December, 1960.

† Statutory Rules 1955, No. 4, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 55.

10005/60.—Price 3d. 9/9.12.1960.

4.—(1.) Regulations 4 and 5 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead:—

Rate of bounty.

“4. The rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid produced at a factory from iron pyrites received into the factory on or after the first day of January, 1961, is—

(a) where the strength of the sulphuric acid is one hundred per centum—Three pounds per ton; or

(b) where the strength of the sulphuric acid is less than one hundred per centum—such amount per ton as bears the same proportion to Three pounds as the strength of the sulphuric acid, expressed as a percentage, bears to one hundred.”.

(2.) The rates of bounty applicable under regulations repealed by the last preceding sub-regulation continue to apply to sulphuric acid—

(a) produced before the first day of January, 1961, from lead sinter gas; or

(b) produced at a factory from pyrites received into the factory before the first day of January, 1961.

Application for Bounty.

5. Regulation 7 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “not earlier than one month and”.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.