Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 9

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE BUTTER FAT LEVY ACT 1965.*

WHEREAS it is provided by the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965 that the amount of levy in respect of any butter fat shall consist of the sum of the amounts prescribed for the purposes of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of that Act:

And whereas it is also provided by that Act that, before making any regulations prescribing an amount for the purposes of section 6 of that Act, the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendations with respect to the amount made to the Minister by the Australian Dairy Produce Board constituted under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924-1965:

And whereas it is also provided by the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965 that, before making a recommendation to the Minister with respect to an amount to be prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of that Act, the Australian Dairy Produce Board shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the amount submitted to the Board by the Dairy Produce Research Committee holding office under the Dairy Produce Research and Sales Promotion Act 1958-1965:

And whereas the Australian Dairy Produce Board, having taken into consideration a recommendation made to it by the Dairy Produce Research Committee, has made recommendations to the Minister with respect to the amounts to be prescribed for the purposes of section 6 of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965:

Now therefore, I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and having taken into consideration the recommendations made by the Australian Dairy Produce Board, hereby make the following Regulations under the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of January, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

 

Amendment of the Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 February, 1966.

 Statutory Rule No. 84, 1965.

10639/65.—Price 6d. (5c) 9/18.10.1965

2. Regulation 3 of the Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Prescribed amounts of levy on butter fat.

“ 3.—(1.) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Act, the amount for each hundredweight of butter fat is 8 cents.

“ (2.) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Act, the amount for each hundredweight of butter fat is 22 cents.

“ (3.) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Act, the amount for each hundredweight of butter fat is 20 cents.”.

 

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