COMMONWEALTH AID ROADS.

No. 31 of 1956.

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1954–1955.

[Assented to 13th June, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1956.

(2.) The Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1954–1955, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1954–1956.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

The Schedule.

3. The Schedule to the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1954–1955 is amended by inserting after paragraph 2 the following paragraph:—

“2a. In addition to the amounts ascertained in accordance with the preceding paragraphs, One penny for each gallon of goods, being goods in respect of which either of those paragraphs applies, entered for home consumption after the thirty-first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six.”.