STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 84
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:
And whereas it is provided by
section 16a of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901-1964 that,
where, in an Act, the Governor-General is referred to, the reference shall,
unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to include the person for the
time being administering the Government of the Commonwealth and shall, unless
the contrary intention appears, be read as referring to a person so deemed to
be included in the reference acting with the advice of the Federal Executive
Council:
Now therefore I, the Administrator
of the Government of 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 25th day of June, 1965.
HENRY ABEL SMITH
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(sgd.) C.F. ADERMANN
Minister of State for
Primary Industry.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1965
6937/65.—Price 6d. 9/16.6.1965
BUTTER
FAT LEVY (AMOUNTS OF LEVY) REGULATIONS
Short
title.
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations.
Definition.
2. In these Regulations, “the
Act” means the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965
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 9.5 pence.
(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 26.5 pence.
(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 24 pence.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer,
Canberra