Sulphuric Acid Bounty

No. 95 of 1971

An Act relating to the Bounty on the Production of Sulphuric Acid.

[Assented to 17 November 1971]

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 1971.

(2.) The Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954–1970 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 1954–1971.

Commencement.

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

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 “December, One thousand nine hundred and seventy” and inserting in their stead the words “May, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “December, One thousand nine hundred and seventy” and inserting in their stead the words “May, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-section (5.) the words “, and at all times from the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, to have been.”.

Application of regulations.

4.—(1.) The regulations that were in force for the purposes of section 8 of the Principal Act immediately before the commencement of this Act apply in relation to bounty that becomes payable after the commencement of this Act but may be amended by regulations made under the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

(2.) If no Proclamation is made under sub-section (4.) of section 4 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, the period commencing on the first day of April, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, and ending on the thirty-first day of May in that year shall, for the purposes of the regulations referred to in the last preceding sub-section, be deemed to be a quarter within the meaning of those regulations.