Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1905. No. 49.

 

Department of Trade and Customs,

Melbourne, 20th July, 1905.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901.

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 Customs Act 1901, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twentieth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and five.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s command—

WILLIAM JOHN LYNE.

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DRAWBACK ON SUGAR USED IN MAKING JAM AND SIMILAR GOODS.

Conditions of Drawback.

1. Where goods, such as jams, jellies, and similar goods, are (after 1st April, 1905) made with sugar at a factory in which both imported sugar and Australian sugar are used in the manufacture of the goods, drawback may be allowed on the exportation of the goods in respect of the sugar contained therein to the extent allowed by Regulation 132 of the Customs Regulations (Statutory Rules 1904, No. 25) if the Collector is satisfied—

(a)that the goods were made at the factory during a specified calendar year; and

(b) that during that year imported duty-paid sugar, to an amount equal to or greater than the amount in respect of which drawback is claimed, was used at the factory in the manufacture of similar goods; and

(c) that the drawback claimed would not, if added to the drawback (if any) previously allowed in respect of any similar goods manufactured in the factory during that year, amount to more than would be lawfully allowed on the export of the whole amount of imported sugar used in the factory in the manufacture of similar goods during that year.

Time when Claim must be made.

2. No drawback shall be allowed except in respect of sugar contained in goods made in the calendar year in which the claim for drawback is made or in the preceding calendar year.

Declaration on Export Entry.

3.The Declaration on the export entryin cases provided for by this regulation may be in the following form:—

I (or We) declare that (I or We) am (or are) the exporter (or exporters) of the above mentioned goods, and

(a) that the goods were manufactured at (here specify factory and place where situate) during the year One thousand nine hundred and (here specify the year), and

(b)that during the year above specified imported duty-paid sugar was used at the said factory in the manufacture of the above or of similar goods to an amount equal to or greater than the amount upon which drawback is now claimed, and

(c)that the drawback claimed would not, if added to the drawback (if any) previously allowed in respect of similar goods manufactured in the said factory during the said year, amount to more than would be lawfully allowed on the export of the whole amount of imported sugar used in the manufacture of similar goods during the said year.

Exporter.

Signed and declared before me this day of 19

Collector.

4.Statutory Rules 1905, No. 29, made as Provisional Regulations under the said Act, are hereby cancelled.

 

By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.