Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (BOOKS) ACT 1986 No. 127 of 1986 - SECT 19

19. (1) Subject to this section, a person may be registered under this section
for the purposes of this Act.

(2) An application for registration under this section may be made to the
Comptroller, in accordance with the appropriate approved form, by a person
who-

   (a)  carries out, or proproses to carry out, the printing of
        bountiable books at premises in Australia that are used solely or
        principally for industrial or commercial purposes; or

   (b)  publishes, or proposes to publish, bountiable books so printed.

(3) Subject to sub-sections (7), (9), (10) and (11), where an application for
registration is made under sub-section (2) by a person (in this
sub-section referred to as the "applicant") who, in the opinion of the
Comptroller, is entitled under sub-section (2) to make such an application,
the Comptroller shall-

   (a)  register the applicant for the purposes of this Act by-

        (i)    signing a notice, in writing, specifying the day on which it
               was signed and stating that the applicant has been registered
               for the purposes of this Act; and

        (ii)   causing the notice to be served on the applicant; or

   (b)  refuse to register the applicant for the purposes of this Act and
        cause a notice, in writing, stating that the Comptroller has refused
        to register the applicant for those purposes to be served on the
        applicant.

(4) The registration of a person under this section has effect from and
including-

   (a)  the day on which the notice under paragraph (3) (a) in relation to the
        person is signed; or

   (b)  such earlier day, not being a day earlier than the first day of the
        bounty period, as is specified for the purpose in the notice.

(5) A notice under sub-section (3) in relation to a person shall specify
whether the person is registered under this section in relation to-

   (a)  all bountiable books; or

   (b)  a specified class, or specified classes, of bountiable books, and may
        specify a period as the period during which the person is registered
        under this section.

(6) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be met by an applicant for
registration under this section, including, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, a condition requiring the applicant to be a person included in
a specified class of persons.

(7) If conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of sub-section (6),
the Comptroller shall not register the person under this section unless-

   (a)  the Comptroller is satisfied that the conditions are, or will be, met
        by the person; or

   (b)  registration of the person is otherwise permitted under the
        regulations.

(8) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be complied with in connection
with the production of bountiable books or bountiable books of a particular
kind by, or arranged for by, a person registered under this section.

(9) If conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of sub-section (8),
the Comptroller shall not register a person under this section unless-

   (a)  the Comptroller is satisfied that the conditions have been, or will
        be, complied with by the person; or

   (b)  registration of the person is otherwise permitted under the
        regulations.

(10) The Comptroller may require an applicant for registration under this
section to give such information as the Comptroller considers necessary for
the purposes of this Act and may refuse to register the person until the
information is given to the satisfaction of the Comptroller.

(11) Where an applicant for registration under this section was not, on 1
January 1987, engaged in carrying out the printing of bountiable books at
premises in Australia or in publishing bountiable books so printed, the
Comptroller shall not register that person if the Minister has informed the
Comptroller that the registration of that person will not permit the orderly
development in Australia of the industry comprising the production of
bountiable books.

(12) Where, at any time, the Comptroller becomes satisfied, in respect of a
person registered under this section-

   (a)  that the person no longer carries out the printing in Australia of
        bountiable books or publishes bountiable books so printed;

   (b)  in a case where the person is registered in relation to a class of
        bountiable books - that the person does not carry out the printing of
        bountiable books included in that class at premises in Australia or
        publish such bountiable books so printed; or

   (c)  in a case where conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of
        sub-section (6) or (8) - that, if the person were, at that time, an
        applicant for registration under this section, the Comptroller would
        not be authorised to register the person under this section, the
        Comptroller may cancel the registration of the person by causing a
        notice, in writing, stating that the registration of the person has
        been cancelled to be served on the person.