Canned Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 2681

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Canned Fruits Levy Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after taking into consideration the relevant recommendation made to the Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy by the Australian Canned Fruits Corporation under subsection 10 (2) of the Canned Fruits Levy Act 1979 with respect to regulations to be made for the purposes of section 6 of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations under that Act.

Dated 18 November 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER MORRIS

Minister of State for Resources for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 December 1987.

Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Canned Fruits Levy Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

 

SCHEDULE Regulation 3

PRESCRIBED RATES OF LEVY

Column 1

Class of container

Column 2

Prescribed rate of levy

Where the gross weight of the container does not exceed 150 crams

1.667 cents per dozen containers

Where the gross weight of the container exceeds 150 grams but does not exceed 320 grams

2.5 cents per dozen containers

Where the gross weight of the container exceeds 320 grams but does not exceed 490 grams

5 cents per dozen containers

Where the gross weight of the container exceeds 490 grams but does not exceed 680 grams

7.5 cents per dozen containers

Where the gross weight of the container exceeds 680 grams

10 cents per dozen containers and, in addition, 6 cents per dozen containers for each 450 grams, or part of 450 grams, by which the gross weight of the container exceeds 900 grams

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 November 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 293 as amended by 1980 No. 393; 1983 No. 82; 1985 No. 314; 1986 No. 343.