Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty
No. 66 of 1969
An Act relating to the payment of Bounty on the Production of certain Phosphate Fertilizers.
[Assented to 12 September 1969]
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 Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Act 1969.
(2.) The Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Act 1963–1968 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Act 1963–1969.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.
Rate of bounty in respect of superphosphate.
3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Eight dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Twelve dollars”;
(b) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “Forty dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Sixty dollars”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “Eight dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Twelve dollars”.
Rate of bounty in respect of ammonium phosphate.
4. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Forty dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Sixty dollars”.
Application.
5. The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies in respect of superphosphate and ammonium phosphate used before the date of commencement of this Act in the production of a fertilizer mixture but not sold before that date.