STATUTORY RULES.
1954. No. 4
REGULATIONS UNDER THE SULPHURIC ACID BOUNTY ACT 1954.*
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.
Dated this tenth
day of January ,1954.
W.J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Regulations.
Interpretation.
2.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
"authorized agent" means a person appointed in pursuance of regulation 6 of these Regulations to be an authorized agent for the purposes of these Regulations;
"quarter" means the period of three months which commences on the first day of July, the first day of October, the first day of January or the first day of April in each of the years to which the Act applies;
"the Act" means the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954;
"the landed cost per ton", in relation to crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter, means the amount ascertained by dividing the total cost of all crude brimstone imported into Australia in that quarter by the number of tons of crude brimstone so imported;
"total cost" means such amount as the Minister determines to be the sum in Australian currency of all costs (including insurance and external freight) incurred in the importation to the wharf at the port of importation of all crude brimstone imported into Australia.
(2.) In these Regulations, a reference to a form by number shall be read as a reference to the form so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,1954.
5337.—Price 3d. 9/23.11.1954.
Pyrites a prescribed material.
3. Pyrites is a prescribed material for the purposes of section 6 of the Act.
Rate of bounty.
4.—(1.) The rate of bounty on sulphuric acid produced in a quarter is the rate fixed by, or ascertained in accordance with, the succeeding provisions of this regulation.
(2.) Where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter is Twenty pounds ten shillings, the rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of one hundred per centum produced in the quarter is Two pounds per ton.
(3.) Where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter exceeds Twenty pounds ten shillings, the rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of one hundred per centum produced in the quarter is a rate per ton ascertained by deducting from an amount of Two pounds an amount of One shilling and nine pence for each amount of Five shillings or part of Five shillings by which the landed cost per ton exceeds Twenty pounds ten shillings.
(4.) Where the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter is less than Twenty pounds ten shillings, the rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of one hundred per centum produced in the quarter is—
(a) a rate per ton ascertained by adding to an amount of Two pounds an amount of One shilling and nine pence for each amount of Five shillings or part of Five shillings by which the landed cost per ton is less than Twenty pounds ten shillings; or
(b) a rate of Four pounds per ton,
whichever is the less.
(5.) The rate of bounty in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of less than one hundred per centum produced in the quarter is a rate which bears to the rate fixed by, or ascertained in accordance with, the preceding provisions of this regulation in respect of sulphuric acid of a strength of one hundred per centum the same proportion as the strength of the first mentioned sulphuric acid produced bears to one hundred.
Circumstances in which bounty is not payable.
5. When the landed cost per ton of crude brimstone imported into Australia in a quarter is Twenty-five pounds ten shillings or exceeds Twenty-five pounds ten shillings, no bounty is payable in respect of sulphuric acid produced in that quarter.
Authorized agents.
6.—(1.) A producer may appoint a person to be his authorized agent for the purposes of executing on his behalf a notice, declaration, certificate or document which the producer is required to execute by, or for the purposes of, the Act or these Regulations.
(2.) An authorized agent may execute on behalf of the producer such a notice, declaration, certificate or document.
(3.) Where a notice, declaration, certificate or document has been executed by an authorized agent, the producer is subject to the same liabilities and penalties as if he had executed the notice, declaration, certificate or document.
(4.) The appointment of an authorized agent shall be in accordance with Form 1 and shall be—
(a) signed by the producer in the presence of a witness; and
(b) lodged by the producer with the Collector for the State in which the producer produces sulphuric acid.
Application for bounty.
7.—(1.) An application for bounty on sulphuric acid produced on or after the first day of July, 1954, and prior to the first day of January, 1955, shall be lodged with the Collector for the State in which the sulphuric acid was produced not earlier than the first day of February, 1955, and not later than the twenty-eighth day of February, 1955.
(2.) An application for bounty on sulphuric acid produced on or after the first day of January, 1955, shall be lodged with the Collector for the State in which the sulphuric acid was produced not earlier than one month and not later than two months after the expiration of the quarter in which the sulphuric acid was produced.
(3.) An application for bounty shall be accompanied by a declaration signed in the presence of a witness.
(4.) An application for bounty and the accompanying declaration shall be in accordance with Form 2.
THE SCHEDULE.
Regulation 6.
Form 1.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954.
APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT.
(a) Insert name and address of producer. (b) insert name, address and description of authorized agent.
To the Collector of Customs for the State of
I, (a) hereby appoint (b)
a specimen of whose signature appears hereunder, to be my authorized agent for the purposes of the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954 and the regulations made thereunder.
Dated at this day of , 19 .
(c) Signature of producer.
(c)
(d) Signature and address of witness.
(d)
(e) Signature of agent.
(e)
Form 2.
Regulation 7.
Commonwealth of Australia.
Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954.
APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY.
(a) Insert name and address of producer.
To the Collector of Customs for the State of
I, (a) , hereby apply for bounty in respect of sulphuric acid produced in the factory situated at (b) during the quarter ended , 19 and sold for delivery in Australia or used by me in the production in Australia of fertilizers.
(b) Insert address of factory.
The particulars relating to the sulphuric acid covered by this application are as follows:—
| Details of Sulphuric Acid so Produced and so Sold or Used. | Rate of Bounty. | Amount of Bounty Claimed. |
| Quantity in Tons. | Strength. |
| | | | |
| | | Total................................................................................................... | |
DECLARATION
(c) Insert full name, address and occupation of person declaring.
I (c) hereby declare—
1. That I am the (d) of the sulphuric acid specified in the foregoing application for bounty.
(d) Insert "producer" or "authorized agent of the producer" whichever is applicable.
2. That the sulphuric acid was produced in premises registered by the Minister for Trade and Customs as a factory under the Sulphuric Acid Bounty Act 1954.
3. That the particulars relating to the sulphuric acid set out in the foregoing application for bounty are true and correct in every particular.
4. That the whole of the sulphuric acid specified in the foregoing application for bounty is of good and merchantable quality.
5. That the whole of the sulphuric acid specified in the foregoing application for bounty was produced at the factory specified in the application from pyrites of Australian origin.
6. That the sulphuric acid specified in the foregoing application for bounty was—
(a) sold by the producer for delivery in Australia; or
(b) was used by the producer in the production in Australia of fertilizers.
7. That 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 clone or omitted to be clone, whereby the right of the producer to bounty has been forfeited or taken away.
8. That to the best of my knowledge and belief, no other application for bounty has been made, nor has any bounty been paid, in respect of the sulphuric acid specified in the foregoing application, for bounty.
Declared at this day of , 19 .
(e) Signature of person declaring.
(e)
(f) Signature of witness.
(f)
(g) Occupation and address of witness.
(g)
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