Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. 124.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CANNED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1926-1952.*

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952 it is enacted (inter alia)that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all canned fruits which are exported from the Commonwealth and that, subject to a lower rate being prescribed by the Regulations in respect of any of the kinds of canned fruits to which that Act applies, the rate of charge shall be one-fourth of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned fruits exported:

And whereas by section 4 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1953 it is enacted (inter alia)that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Canned Fruits Board constituted under the Canned Fruits Export Control Act 1926-1953, make Regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on any kind of canned fruits exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that on and after the first day January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, the rate of charge should be Three-twenty-fourths of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned fruits (other than canned pineapple juice) exported and the rate of charge should be One-twelfth of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned pineapple juice exported:

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 Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952.

Dated this fifteenth day of December, 1954.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE CANNED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first dayof January, 1955.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 195 .

  Statutory Rules 1953, No. 9.

5668.—Price 3D. 9/10.12.1954.

 

Rates of charge.

2. Regulation 5 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a)the words “One-twelfth of a penny” and inserting in their stead the words “Three-twenty-fourths of a penny”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b)the words “One-twenty-fourth of a penny” and inserting in their stead the words “One-twelfth of a penny”.

 

Printed for the GOVERNMENT of the COMMONWEALTH by A. J. ARTHUR at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.