Statutory Rules

1980 No. 357

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS BOUNTY ACT 19631

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Act 1963.

Dated this fourth day of December 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN MOORE

Minister of State for Business and consumer Affairs

 

Amendments of the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Regulations2

Determination of available phosphorous content

 1. Regulation 2AA of the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Regulations is amended —

 (a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “representative sample” in sub‑regulation (1) “Controller-General” and substituting “Comptroller-General”;

 (b) by omitting sub-regulation (3) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

 “(3) The prescribed percentage in relation to a phosphatic substance is —

 (a) except where paragraph (b) applies — the percentage of available phosphorus in a representative sample of the substance as —

 (i) determined by an approved analyst in accordance with sub-regulations (5) and (6); and

 (ii) specified in a certificate issued in respect of the sample by the analyst in accordance with sub-regulation (4); or

 (b) where —

 (i) the phosphatic substance is superphosphate in respect of which bounty becomes payable before 21 August 1979; and

 (ii) the percentage of available phosphorus referred to in paragraph (a) in relation to a representative sample of the substance is less than 8.5 per centum,

8.5 per centum.”;

 (c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “paragraph (3) (b)” and substituting “sub‑paragraph (3) (a) (ii)”;

 (d) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (5) “representative sample” and substituting “prepared sample”; and

 (e) by omitting from sub-regulation (6) “representative sample” (second occurring) and substituting “prepared sample”.

Commencement

 2. Regulation 2AA of the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Regulations as amended by regulation 1 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1977.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 December 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1964 No. 29 as amended by Statutory Rules 1969 No. 70; 1979 No. 166.