Apple and Pear
Export Charge Amendment Act 1981
No.
147 of 1981
An
Act to amend the Apple and Pear Export
Charge Act 1976
[Assented to 21 October 1981]
[Date of commencement 18 November 1981]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited
as the Apple and Pear Export Charge
Amendment Act 1981.
(2) The Apple and Pear Export Charge Act 19761
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Interpretation
2. (1) Section 5 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the
following sub-section:
“(2) In the application of this Act
to fruit that is not packed in boxes the reference in sub-section 7 (2) to a
box of fruit shall be read as a reference to 18 kilograms of fruit or, if the
fruit is of a variety in respect of which another weight is specified in the
regulations for the purposes of this sub-section, that other weight of fruit.”.
(2) The amendment made by
sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to fruit exported in a month
commencing before 1 January 1982.
Rate
of charge
3. Section 7 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “6 cents” and
substituting “12 cents”.
Regulations
4. Section 9 of the
Principal Act is amended by inserting “or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed” after “required”.
NOTE
1. No. 197,
1976.