Sulphuric Acid Bounty

No. 66 of 1970

An Act relating to the Bounty on Sulphuric Acid.

[Assented to 14 October 1970]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1970.

(2.) The Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1969 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1970.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy.

Interpretation.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from the definition of “the bounty period” in sub-section (1.) the words “thirtieth day of June” and inserting in their stead the words “thirty-first day of December”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “thirtieth day of June” and inserting in their stead the words “thirty-first day of December”.

Application of regulations.

4. The regulations made for the purposes of section 8 of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954-1966 that were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act apply in relation to bounty that becomes payable during the period commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy and ending on the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, or, if a Proclamation is made under sub-section (4.) of section 4 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, ending on the date specified by the Proclamation, as the case may be, but may be amended, in so far as they so apply, by regulations made under section 23 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.