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Cotton Industry Act 1928

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Cotton Industry Act, 1928

(18 & 19 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 11.

An Act to provide for the collection of a contribution by cotton spinners in Great Britain to the funds of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation; and for other matters relating to the cotton industry.

[2nd July 1928]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Continuance and amendment of 13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 22.

1 Continuance and amendment of 13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 22.

(1) Sections one to three of the Cotton Industry Act, 1923, shall, subject to the amendment hereinafter contained, continue in force for a period of five years from the date when they would otherwise expire.

(2) Section two of the said Act, as so continued, shall have effect as if for the words ‘a contribution at the rate of sixpence for every five hundred pounds gross weight or portion thereof of the cotton so purchased’ there were substituted the words ‘a contribution at the rate of threepence for every five hundred pounds gross weight or portion thereof of the cotton so purchased, or such less rate as the Corporation may, with the approval of the Board of Trade, determine in respect of any year.’

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theCotton Industry Act, 1928, and the Cotton Industry Act, 1923, and this Act may be cited together as the Cotton Industry Acts, 1923 and 1928.

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