1Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Regulations 1913 (Provisional)

STATUTORY RULES.

1913. No. 100.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE WOOD PULP AND ROCK PHOSPHATE BOUNTIES ACT 1912.

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 Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate, Bounties Act 1912 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this 4th day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

WOOD PULP AND ROCK PHOSPHATE BOUNTIES REGULATIONS.

Short Title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Regulations 1913.

Definitions.

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

“Authorized person” means a person appointed in writing by the Collector to be an authorized person for the purposes of these Regulations;

“Bounty” means bounty under the Act;

“Collector” means the Collector of Customs for the State;

“Factory” means the premises specified in any notice of intention to claim bounty or claim for bounty given or made under 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;

“Reward” means reward under the Act;

“The Act” means the Wood Pulp and Rock Phosphate Bounties Act 1912.

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Reward.

3. (a) The reward for the discovery of rock phosphate shall be payable only in respect of rock phosphate produced in Australia, and used in the manufacture in Australia of marketable phosphatic manure.

(b) Reward will be refused on any rock phosphate which contains less than 54.6 per cent. tri-calcic phosphate (equivalent to 25 per cent. phosphoric anhydride), or which contains more than 5 per centum of phosphates of iron and aluminum, when calculated as ferric and aluminic oxides.

(c) The discovery must have been made subsequent to the 24th December, 1912.

Notice of Intention to Claim a Reward.

4. Notice of intention to claim a reward for the discovery of a vein or deposit of rock phosphate suitable for making phosphate manure shall be given to the Collector as soon as practicable after the vein or deposit has been discovered.