1Bounties Regulations 1908 (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 32.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE BOUNTIES ACT 1907.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Bounties Act 1907 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 12th day of March, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

BOUNTIES REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bounties Regulations 1908.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, except where otherwise clearly intended:—

“Bounty” means bounty under the Bounties Act 1907.

“Collector” means the Collector of Customs for the State and includes any principal officer of Customs at any Customs office.

“Factory” means a place (including the premises of a grower) for treating any of the products enumerated in the First Schedule to the Act.

“Financial year” means the period from the first day of July in any one year to the thirtieth day of June in the next succeeding year, both days inclusive.

“Manufactures” means the goods enumerated in Appendix A to these Regulations and numbered 9 to 11 inclusive in that Appendix.

“Natural products” means the goods enumerated in Appendix A to these Regulations and numbered 1 to 8 inclusive in that Appendix.

“The Act” means the Bounties Act 1907.

“White Plantation” means the area specified in a notice of intention to claim bounty, and to be used in the cultivation of the product upon which bounty is to be claimed.

The expression “White labour” in these Regulations is used to the exclusion of all forms of coloured labour, but subject to the provisions of Section 4 of the Act.

Compliance with Regulations necessary to sustain Claim for Bounty.

3. In order to sustain a claim for payment of bounty the requirements of these Regulations must have been complied with.

Notice of Intention to Claim Bounty—Time within which to be given.

Natural Products.

4. Notice of intention to claim bounty upon any natural product shall be given within 60 days after the planting of the crop, to the Collector or to any other person who may be authorized by the Minister to receive the notice.

5. In the case of crops planted before the commencement of the Act, notice of intention to claim bounty shall be given to the Collector within 90 days after the commencement of these regulations, or within such further time as, under special circumstances, the Minister may allow.