Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 173.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXPORT GUARANTEE ACT 1924–1925.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting on the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirtieth day of September, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. WILSON,

Minister of State for Markets and Migration.

 

Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations.

Definitions.

2.In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Assistance” means assistance under section five of the Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925, in respect of apricots, clingstone peaches and pineapples canned in the Commonwealth during the period commencing on the first day of November, 1924, and ending on the thirtieth day of September, 1925, and exported from the Commonwealth on or before the twenty-eighth day of February, 1926.

Claims for assistance.

3. Any claim for assistance shall be in accordance with the form in the Schedule to these Regulations and shall be rendered in duplicate to the Secretary, Department of Markets and Migration, Melbourne.

Accounts to be kept.

4. (1) Each claimant for assistance shall keep proper and separate books of account showing in detail—

(a)the quantity of each kind of fresh fruit purchased by the claimant;

(b) the amount paid to the grower for each kind of fruit;

(c) the name and address of the grower from whom the fruit was purchased; and

(d) such other particulars as the Minister from time to time requires.

(2) All account books kept under this regulation by a claimant for assistance and all documents in the possession or under the control of the claimant relating to canned fruit shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection and audit by any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister, and that person may, upon inspection or audit, make and take away extracts from those books of account and documents.

C.14776.—Price 3d.

 

Commonwealth of Australia.

Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925.

CLAIM FOR ASSISTANCE ON EXPORTATION OF CANNED FRUITS.

(a) Insert name and full address.

Dr. to (a)........................................................................................................................................

Financial Year 192

 . State of....................................................

(b) Insert variety of fruit.

(c) Insert destination.

I hereby claim assistance under section five of the Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925 in respect of Canned (b)............................................................................... produced by me at my factory during the period commencing on the first day of November, 1924, and ending on the thirtieth day of September, 1925, and exported by me to (c)..............................................................................., per s.s.....................................on...................................................

Particulars.

Factory situated at. No of Dozen, Size, and Description of Canned Fuits on which Assistance is claimed. Rate of Assistance. Amount of Assistance claimed.

Total. £

....................................pounds...........................................shillings

....................................pence.

Signature of Producer.............................................

 

In connexion with this claim the following additional particulars are furnished:—

(d) Insert name and full address of purchaser.

(1) The canned................................................was purchased by (d)..........................................

(e) State name and address of seller.

(2) The price per dozen oz. tins at which the canned..................................has been sold by (e)...............................................................to the said purchaser is as follows:—

(i) Gross price per dozen oz. tins c.i.f. or f.o.b.

(ii) Deductions from gross price by way of—

(a) Discount..........................................

(b) Commission.....................................

(c) Brokerage.........................................

(d) Rebate..............................................

(e) Any other allowances.......................

(f) Full name and address of seller.

(3) The net price per dozen f.o.b. Australian port received or to be received by (f)............................................................................................ is:—

(g) State name and address of canner.

(4) The growers of the fresh fruit used in the manufacture of the canned fruits referred to in this claim have received payment from (g).........................................................for such fresh fruit at the following rates:—

Apricots. £10 per ton.

Clingstone peaches. £10 per ton.

Pineapples. 3s. 9d. per case.

These rates shall—

(a) where the cannery is situated outside a metropolitan area include the cost of delivery to the cannery; and

(b)where the cannery is situated in a metropolitan area, include the cost of delivery at the railway station most convenient to the orchard where the fruit is grown.

Officer’s Certificate.

I certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, after due inquiry, the particulars and statements declared to in the above claim for assistance are true and correct, and that the claimant is entitled to assistance on the goods specified in the claim.

..........................................Officer of Customs.

Date / /

I certify that this account is correct within the meaning of section 34 of the Audit Act 1901–1924.

......................................Certifying Officer.

Date / /

Received on the.................................., 192 , from ............................................the sum of ........................ pounds........................... shillings........................ pence, in full payment of the above account.

Witness to the payment and signature. .....................................................

 

Commonwealth of Australia.

STATUTORY DECLARATION.

I, ....................................................., of.........................................., do solemnly and sincerely declare:—

(a) Description of person making declaration.

(b) Name of manufacturer.

1. That I am (a)..........................................................................................

2. That (b)................................................was the producer of the canned fruits specified in this claim for assistance.

3. That the canned fruit was produced by the said (b).......................................... at the factory mentioned in this claim for assistance.

4. That the particulars contained in this claim for assistance are correct.

5. That no other claim for assistance has been made nor has any assistance been granted under the Export Guarantee Act 1924–1925 in respect of the export of the canned fruit specified in this claim for assistance.

 

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1911, conscientiously believing the statements contained therein to be true in every particular.

(c) Signature of person making declaration.

(c)................................................................

Declared at..................................................... on the ..................................................day of ..............................................., One thousand nine hundred and twenty-

(d) Signature of person before whom declaration is made.

(e) Here insert title of person before whom the declaration is made. That person must be a Police Stipendiary or Special Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Affidavits, or a Commissioner for Declarations.

Before me,

(d) ...............................................................

(e) ...............................................................

Note.—Any person who wilfully makes a false statement in a statutory declaration is guilty of an indictable offence, and is liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for four years.

 

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