STATUTORY RULES

1923. No. 13.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTS BOUNTY ACT 1922.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of February, 1923.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTS BOUNTY REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Iron and Steel Products Bounty Regulations 1922.

 

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Authorized person” means a person appointed in writing by the Minister for Trade and Customs to be an authorized person for the purposes of these Regulations ;

“Bounty” means bounty under the Act ;

“Collector” means Collector of Customs for the State ;

“Factory” means premises specified in any notice of intention to claim bounty or claim for bounty given or made under the Act;

“The Act” means the Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922.

 

Notice of Intention to Claim Bounty.

3. (1) Notice of intention to claim bounty upon any of the goods specified in the Schedule to the Act shall be given to the Collector by the manufacturer at least thirty days before the claim for bounty is made.

(2) If so requested by a manufacturer the Collector may accept a notice of intention to claim bounty as a continuing notice.

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Form of Notice.

4. The notice of intention to claim bounty shall be in accordance with the following form :—

 

Commonwealth of Australia.

The Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922.

Notice by manufacturer of intention to claim bounty.

State of

To the Collector of Customs.

I hereby give notice that I intend to claim bounty in respect of (a)                  manufactured in and delivered from, or to be manufactured in and delivered from, my factory after the fourteenth day of September, 1922, *and request that this be accepted as a continuing notice.*

My factory is situated at

Signature of Manufacturer.

Address.

Witness

Date

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Note.—Words between asterisks may be omitted if desired.

This form when filled in to be forwarded to the State Collector of Customs.

(a) Here insert kind of goods.

 

Transferee of Factory may Claim Bounty without Fresh Notice.

5. (1) Where a manufacturer has given a continuing notice of intention to claim bounty in respect of goods manufactured at a factory, and the factory has subsequently become transferred to some other person, the transferee may claim bounty in respect of goods manufactured by him at the factory without a fresh notice of intention to claim bounty being necessary on his part.

(2) A factory shall be deemed to have become transferred where it has passed from one person to another person by act of parties or by operation of law.

 

Minimum Quantities.

6. A person shall not be entitled to claim bounty on fencing wire, galvanized sheets or wire netting unless the quantities specified in the following table have been manufactured in, and delivered from, the factory after 14th September, 1922, and before the claim for bounty is made.

Table of Minimum Quantities to enable Claim for Bounty to be made.

Goods.					Minimum Quantity.
Fencing Wire................................................					50	tons
Galvanized Sheets........................................					100	tons
Wire Netting.................................................					50	tons

 

Powers of Authorized Person.

7. Any authorized person may, at all reasonable times, enter upon any factory or premises where there are manufactured or stored any goods in respect of which notice of intention to claim bounty has been given, and may inspect the process of manufacture of those goods and the accounts books and documents of the manufacturer for the purposes of examination and audit and of ascertaining and reporting on the cost of production and manufacture of the goods.

Inspection of Process of Manufacture, etc.

8. Where notice of intention to claim bounty has been given in accordance with these regulations, the manufacturer giving the notice shall—

(a) allow any authorized person to have access at all reasonable times to the factory named in the notice, for the purpose of inspecting the process of manufacture of the goods;

(b) provide, when requested by an authorized person so to do, all reasonable facilities and assistance necessary to enable the authorized person to effectively inspect the process of manufacture of the goods;

(c) keep books and accounts showing clearly the cost of production and manufacture and selling price of all goods upon which bounty is intended to be claimed, the capital employed in the business and the net profits derived therefrom during each financial year;

(d) produce such books and accounts and the documents relating to entries therein for examination and audit by any authorized person when required by him so to do; and

(e) supply such samples of the goods as the Collector requires.

 

Form of Claim for Bounty.

9. The claim for bounty shall be in accordance with the following form, and shall be dealt with as shown thereon:—

Commonwealth of Australia.

Departmental Registration

Number.

Dr. to (a)

Financial year 19                                                     State of

The Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922.

Pursuant to notice of intention to claim, I hereby claim bounty in respect of (b)                    
manufactured by me at, and delivered from, my factory after the fourteenth day of September, 1922, and up to the (c)                        The particulars relating to the goods are as follow:—

Particulars.

Factory situated at.		No. Weight, and Description of Goods on which bounty is claimed.		Rate of Bounty.	Amount of Bounty claimed.
Total				pounds
	shillings		pence
Signature of Manufacturer—				£

This form when filled in to be forwarded to the State Collector.

(a) Insert name and full address.

(b) Here insert name of goods.

(c) Here insert date of completion of manufacture of the goods in respect of which claim is made.

Officer’s Certificate.

I certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, after due inquiry, the particulars and statements declared to in the above claim for bounty are true and correct for the purposes of the Iron and Steel Products Bounty Act 1922, and that the claimant is entitled to bounty on the goods specified in the claim.

Officer of Customs.

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I certify that this account is correct within the meaning of Section 34 of the Audit Act 1901-1920.

		Certifying Officer.				Date,	/	/
Received on the				19	, from
the sum of							pounds
shillings					pence, in full payment of the above
account.
Witness to the payment and signature	}
Declaration to be Indorsed on Claim for Bounty.
I,	of					, do hereby declare

as follows:—

1. I am the manufacturer of the goods specified in this claim for bounty.

2. The goods were manufactured by me at, and delivered from, the factory mentioned in the notice of intention to claim bounty given by

3. The description of the goods, and the particulars relating thereto, set out in this claim for bounty, are true and correct in every respect.

4. The whole of the goods specified in this claim for bounty—

(а) were made from materials wholly produced or manufactured in Australia, or from such imported material as was authorized under section 4 of the Act, and

(b) are of good and merchantable quality.

5. None of the goods specified in this claim for bounty have been manufactured or supplied, or are intended to be supplied, under a contract containing a term or condition permitting or providing for the deduction of the amount of the bounty or any part thereof from the price or moneys payable for the goods to the manufacturers.

6. Nothing on my part has been done or omitted to be done, and to the best of my knowledge and belief nothing on the part of any other person has been done or omitted to be done, whereby my right to bounty in respect of the goods has been forfeited or taken away.

7. No other claim for bounty has been made nor has any bounty been paid in respect of the goods specified in this claim for bounty.

8. The particulars set out hereunder as to persons employed in my factory in the production of the goods, the hours worked by and the rates of wages paid to them, &c., are true and correct.

9. The said rates and the conditions of employment are in no case below the rates and Conditions declared by the President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, under Section 10 (1) of the Act, to be fair and reasonable. (d)

Employee.			Hours of Labour per week.	Rate of Wages paid per hour. (State whether with or without keep.)		Remarks.
(e) Name or Number.	Occupation.
Signature of Manufacturer.
Declared before me at		this			day of		19
					Officer of Customs or J.P.

(d) if no rates have been declared by the President under Section 10 (1) of the Act, to be fair and reasonable, strike out all the words from “rates” (second occurring) to “reasonable” and insert “standard rates and conditions of employment prescribed by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.”

(e) Where there are several employees of one class receiving the same rate of wages it will suffice to insert the number.

 

Time within which Claim for Bounty is to be Made.

10. Claim for bounty on goods manufactured in and delivered from a factory before the date of these Regulations shall be made within thirty days after these Regulations come into force and thereafter claims shall be made within thirty days after completion of manufacture and delivery, or, with the written permission of the Collector, at regular monthly or quarterly intervals.

 

Proportion of Bounty Payable when Amount Available not Sufficient to Pay Whole.

11. When the amount available to pay bounty in any one financial year, as determined by the provisions of the Act, is insufficient for payment in full of all duly rendered claims as regards which the Minister is satisfied that the requirements of the Act and Regulations have been complied with the bounty payable in respect of each such claim shall be in the same ratio to the claim as the sum total available for that period bears to the total of such claims in respect of that period.

12. (1) In relation to any claim for bounty under the Act the Minister may determine the respective amounts which shall for the purposes of the Act be deemed to be the capital employed in respect of the business in connexion with which bounty is payable and the net profits arising therefrom in any financial year.

(2) Every such determination shall be final and conclusive and without appeal.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.

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