Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (COMPUTERS) ACT 1984 No. 113 of 1984 - SECT 5

5. (1) The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette ,
declare a class of computer equipment to be a class of computer equipment to
which paragraph (e) of the definition of "bountiable equipment" in sub-section
3 (1) applies.

(2) The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette, declare a
class of machines to be a class of machines to which paragraph (b) of the
definition of "computer-based machine" in sub-section 3 (1) applies.

(3) The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette, revoke or
amend a declaration in force under sub-section (1) or (2).

(4) A declaration under sub-section (1) or (2) or the revocation or amendment
of such a declaration has effect from and including such date (which, except
in the case of a revocation or amendment that has the result that equipment of
a kind ceases to be bountiable equipment, may be a date earlier than the
publication in the Gazette of the notice containing the declaration,
revocation or amendment) as is specified in the notice.

(5) Where, by virtue of the revocation or amendment of a declaration under
sub-section (1) or (2), goods of a kind cease to be bountiable equipment on a
day, the manufacture of goods of that kind the manufacture of which was
commenced before and completed after that day shall, for the purposes of this
Act, be deemed to have been completed on the day immediately preceding that
day.

(6) The provisions of sections 48 (other than paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) and
sub-section (2)), 49, 49A and 50 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901
apply in relation to notices under this section as if in those provisions
references to regulations were references to notices, references to a
regulation were references to a notice and references to a repeal were a
reference to a revocation.

(7) For the purposes of this section, the manufacture of goods shall not be
taken to have commenced unless and until the assembly of the goods, or of part
of the goods, has commenced.