1Sugar Regulations

Commonwealth of Australia

Department of Trade and Customs,

Melbourne, 6th October, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Excise Act 1901 and the Sugar Bounty Act 1903, has been pleased to make the following Regulations.

WILLIAM JOHN LYNE,

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SUGAR REGULATIONS.

Repeal.

Sugar Regulations dated 28th July, 1902, 27th August, 1902, 11th September, 1902, and 8th January, 1903, are hereby cancelled.

Definitions.

1. In these regulations, except where otherwise clearly intended—

“Bounty” means bounty pursuant to the Sugar Bounty Act 1903.

“Cane” means sugar cane.

“Juice” means the liquid extracted from sugar cane.

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“Juice Mill” means a factory in which juice is extracted from cane but is not finally made into sugar.

“Grower” means a producer of sugar cane.

“Sugar refiner” means a manufacturer who refines sugar.

“White-grown cane” means cane in the production of which white labour only has been employed after the 28th day of February, 1903, or in the production of which white labour only has been employed for twelve months immediately preceding the delivery thereof for manufacture : Provided always that no cane shall be considered white-grown cane if—

(a) it was produced on land which has been cultivated by other than white labour after a bounty has been paid in respect of the production of sugar cane thereon; or

(b) it was planted by other than white labour after the 28th day of February, 1903.

“White plantation” means the plantation particularized in the notice of intention to claim bounty.

The expression “white labour” in these regulations is used to the exclusion of all forms of coloured labour, whether aborigines of Australia or not, and whether half-caste or of full blood.

Bounty.

2. Bounty shall only be allowed in respect of white-grown cane, and to the grower thereof.

Nothing done before the 1st of March, 1903, shall prevent any cane from being considered white-grown cane.

Conditions of Claim for Bounty.

3. To sustain a claim for bounty in respect of white-grown cane, the following conditions must have been observed :—

(1) Notice of intention to claim must have been given to the Collector of Customs for the State—