Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 81.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938-1957.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section four of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957 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, subject to a lower rate being prescribed by the regulations, the rate of the charges so imposed shall be Two pence for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported:

And whereas it is enacted by section six 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 1938-1953, make regulations for prescribing lower rates 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 rates of charges to be imposed on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth on or after the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine should be the rates specified in the following Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957:

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 1938-1957.

Dated this 16th day of December, 1958.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

 

APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.

Citation.

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

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1959.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 23rd Dec., 1958

8154/58.―Price 3d. 9/10.12.1958.

 

Repeal.

3. The Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations, being Statutory Rules 1957, No. 63, are repealed.

Definition.

4. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957.

Rates of charge.

5. For the purposes of the Act, the prescribed rate of charge imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth is the rate of One and three-quarters pence for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported.

Officer to whom moneys to be paid.

6. For the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section 4 of the Act, the officer holding, occupying 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.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.