Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

STATUTORY RULES

1971 No.

REGULATION UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938-1968.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section 4 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1968 that charges are imposed and shall be levied and paid on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of that section that the amount of charge on any apples or pears exported—

(a) shall be calculated separately in respect of the apples or pears contained in each container; and

(b) shall be ascertained in accordance with the regulations, but is not to exceed an amount calculated at the rate of Five cents for each reputed bushel, or part of a reputed bushel, of apples or pears in the container:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 6 of that Act that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Apple and Pear Board constituted under the Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938-1966, make regulations for prescribing the manner of ascertaining the amounts of the charges imposed on any apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Apple and Pear Board has reported to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the manner of ascertaining the amounts of the charges to be imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth should be the manner specified in the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations as amended by the following Regulation:—

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1968.

Dated this eighteenth day of January, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

Amendment of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations 

Regulation 4 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Export charges.

“4.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the amount of the charge imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth is an amount of Four cents for each reputed bushel, or part ofa reputed bushel, of the apples or pears contained in a container.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971

 Statutory Rules 1969, No. 14.

25815/70—Price 5c 10/11.12.1970

“ (2.) Where apples or pears are exported in a container containing not more than one and one-quarter reputed bushels of apples or pears, the amount of the charge imposed on the apples or pears is an amount ascertained in accordance with the following table:—

Weight of apples or pears contained in the container	Amount or charge in cents
Not more than 5/8ths of a reputed bushel...............................................................	2
More than 5/8ths but not more than 7/8ths of a reputed bushel................................	3
More than 7/8ths of a reputed bushel.....................................................................	4

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