Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

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REGULATIONS 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 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 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 following Regulations:

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 Regulations under the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1968.

Dated this sixth day of February, 1969.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations.

Repeal.

2. The Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1958, No. 81 and Statutory Rules 1961, No. 11) are repealed.

Definition.

3. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1968.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1969.

10075/69—Price 5c 10/10.1.1969

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 3.5 cents for each reputed bushel, or part of a reputed bushel, of the apples or pears contained in a container.

(2.) Where apples or pears are exported in a container containing not more than one and one-quarter 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 of charge in cents
Not more then 5/8ths of a reputed bushel...............................................................................	1.75
More than 5/8ths but not more than 7/8ths of a reputed bushel..........................................	2.625
More than 7/8ths of a reputed bushel......................................................................................	3.5

Officers to whom moneys are to be paid.

5. For the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section 4 of the Act, the officer holding, or performing the duties of, any of the following offices is a prescribed officer:—

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Sydney;

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Melbourne

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Brisbane;

Collector of Customs for the State of South Australia;

Collector of Customs for the State of Western Australia; and

Collector of Customs for the State of Tasmania.

                     

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