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BOUNTY (REFINED TIN) ACT 1980 No. 46 of 1980 - SECT 4

Prescribed tin concentrate
4.(1) Where a smelter, who, during the year that commenced on 1 January 1980,
has been supplied with a quantity of Australian tin concentrate prepared by a
prescribed miner equal to three-quarters of the quantity of Australian
tin concentrate prepared by that prescribed miner that was supplied to the
smelter during the base period, is supplied, in that year, with an additional
quantity of Australian tin concentrate prepared by that prescribed miner, that
additional concentrate is, subject to sub-section (3), prescribed tin
concentrate.

(2) Where a smelter, who, during the year commencing on 1 January 1981, has
been supplied with a quantity of Australian tin concentrate prepared by a
prescribed miner equal to one-half of the quantity of Australian tin
concentrate prepared by that prescribed miner that was supplied to the smelter
during the base period, is supplied, in that year, with an additional quantity
of Australian tin concentrate prepared by that prescribed miner, that
additional concentrate is, subject to sub-section (3), prescribed tin
concentrate.

(3) Where-

   (a)  a quantity of Australian tin concentrate prepared by a
        prescribed miner and supplied to a smelter in a year is, by virtue of
        sub-section (1) or (2), prescribed tin concentrate; and

   (b)  before producing bountiable refined tin by refining that quantity of
        concentrate, the smelter wishes to produce such tin by refining an
        equal quantity of other Australian tin concentrate prepared by that
        prescribed miner supplied to him earlier in that year, the
        Comptroller-General may, if requested by the smelter to do so, approve
        the substitution for the concentrate referred to in paragraph (a) as
        prescribed tin concentrate of the other concentrate referred to in
        paragraph (b).

(4) For the purposes of this section, Australian tin concentrate shall not be
taken to be supplied to a smelter unless it is supplied to him for the purpose
of his refining it so as to produce bountiable refined tin. 


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