1Wire and Wire Netting Advances Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1928. No. 100

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WIRE AND WIRE NETTING ACT 1927.

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 Wire and Wire Netting Act 1927 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 19th day of September, 1928.

Signed by the Governor-General

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Signed by the Minister of State for Markets

Minister of State for Markets.

Wire and Wire Netting Advances Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wire and Wire Netting Advances Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears,

“the Minister” means the Minister for the time being controlling North Australia and Central Australia;

“the Commission” means the North Australia Commission appointed under the Northern Australia Act 1926;

“settler” means any person engaged in primary production in North Australia or Central Australia.

Origin of wire and wire netting.

3. All wire and wire netting supplied under these Regulations shall, unless otherwise approved in writing by the Minister, be of Australian manufacture.

Application for wire and/or wire netting.

4. Any settler who desires to be supplied, under the Act, with wire or wire netting may make application therefor to the Minister.

Particulars of application.

5. (1) Each application shall state the full name and address of the applicant, the quantity and gauge of the wire and the quantity, mesh, width and gauge of the wire netting required, the proposed terms of payment, and, where payment is not to be made in cash, the security offered for payment.

(2) An application shall not be granted unless it contains an undertaking by the applicant that he will, before being supplied with any

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wire or wire netting in accordance with the application, execute an agreement—

(a) to pay for the wire or wire netting applied for by cash or by instalments extending over a period of not exceeding twenty-five years from the first day of July following the date upon which the advance is made to him; and

(b) to use any wire or wire netting supplied to him, within twelve months after its receipt by him, or such further time as the Minister approves, and not to use that wire or wire netting except in the erection upon land occupied by him of rabbit-proof, dog-proof, or marsupial-proof fences as approved by the Commission.