1Sugar Regulations (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 120.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXCISE ACT 1901.

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 Excise Act 1901 should come into operation on the first day of January, 1907, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 28th day of December, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

WILLIAM JOHN LYNE.

SUGAR REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Sugar Regulations.

Repeal.

2. The unrepealed part of the Sugar Regulations made under the Excise Act 1901 and the Sugar Bounty Act 1903, and published in the Gazette of the 10th day of October, 1903, and the whole of Statutory Rules 1904, No. 75, are hereby repealed, save as to anything lawfully done thereunder prior to the coming into operation of these Regulations.

Provided that where any manufacturer or producer is required by any regulations repealed by these regulations to furnish or send to any officer any return, account, or statement, in respect of any period of time within which the repealed regulations were in force, the liability of the manufacturer or producer to furnish or send to that officer that return, account, or statement, shall continue as if the repealed regulations continued in force.

Definitions.

3. In these regulations except where otherwise clearly intended—

“Cane” means sugar cane;

“Juice” means the liquid extracted from sugar cane;

“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; and

“Sugar Refiner” means a manufacturer who refines sugar.

Account to be Kept by Producer.

4. Every producer shall, keep an account of the number of acres on which he grows cane, the number of acres of cane harvested, the weight of cane produced, the weight of cane sold to each person, the names of the persons to whom the cane is sold, and the factories at which the cane is delivered.

Producer’s Return.

5. Every producer shall, not later than the 15th day of April in each year, furnish to the Collector a return verified by declaration, in or to the effect of the form hereto, stating all particulars with respect to the matter specified in the several heads of such form, so far as relates to the year ending on the 31st March immediately preceding.