Dairying Industry Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No..

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DAIRYING INDUSTRY ACT 1952.*

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 Dairying Industry Act 1952.

Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1954.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

 

Dairying Industry Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Dairying Industry Regulations.

Definition.

2. In these Regulations “ the Act ” means the Dairying Industry Act 1952.

Returns.

3.—(1.) Bounty is not payable to the proprietor of a factory which produces butter or cheese or butter and cheese in any month unless, within seven days after the end of that month, the proprietor furnishes to the equalization body which administers the equalization scheme in which the proprietor participates a return in respect of the production of butter or cheese or butter and cheese, as the case requires, in that factory in that month.

(2.) The return shall set forth particulars of—

(a) the quantity of butter fat on hand in the factory at the beginning of the month and the quantity of butter fat on hand at the end of the month ;

(b) the quantity of butter fat obtained from milk and cream received in the factory during the month ;

(c) the quantity of butter fat (other than butter fat recovered from whey) used in the manufacture of butter or cheese during the month ;

(d) the quantity of butter fat (other than butter fat recovered from whey) disposed of during the month otherwise than in the manufacture of butter or cheese ;

(e) the quantity of butter fat recovered from whey during the month ;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

5448—Price 3d. 8/18.1.1954.

(f) the quantity of butter fat recovered from whey and used in the manufacture of butter or cheese during the month ;

(g) the quantity of butter fat recovered from whey and disposed of during the month otherwise than in the manufacture of butter or cheese ;

(h) the quantities of butter or cheese or butter and cheese produced during the month other than butter or cheese manufactured from whey ;

(i) the quantities of butter or cheese manufactured from whey ;

(j) the total amount credited during the month to suppliers of milk and cream by way of bounty and otherwise ; and

(k) bounty payments received by the proprietor and not paid by him at the end of the month, including the amounts represented in cheques which have been outstanding for twelve months or longer.

(3.) The return shall be furnished by a proprietor in accordance with such form as the Minister notifies to be the form to be furnished for the purposes of the Act to the equalization body which administers the equalization scheme in which the proprietor participates.

Proprietor of cheese factory to keep daily record.

4. The proprietor of a cheese factory shall keep a record in permanent form in which he shall enter daily in respect of each vat, referring to the vat by number, particulars of—

(a) the quantity of milk (measured in pounds) placed in that vat ;

(b) the quantity of butter fat (measured in pounds) contained in the milk in that vat ;

(c) the percentage of butter fat ;

(d) the number of various types of cheese manufactured ; and

(e) the total weight of cheese manufactured.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

Determination of quantity of cheese produced.

5.—In order to determine the quantity of cheese produced in respect of which bounty is to be paid in accordance with the Act, each pound of butter fat in the milk used in the manufacture of cheese shall be deemed to yield 2.55 pounds of cheese.

(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, every manufacturer of cheese shall, unless the Minister otherwise directs, weigh the quantity of milk to be used for the manufacture of cheese, take a representative sample of that milk and test the sample for butter fat.

Records to be kept.

6.—(1.) The proprietor of a factory shall keep from day to day such records as are necessary to enable the returns which he is required to furnish under these Regulations to be fully and completely prepared.

(2.) The proprietor of a factory shall not destroy any records which he is required to keep under these Regulations until authorized to do so by the equalization body which administers the equalization scheme in which the proprietor participates.

Penalty : Fifty pounds.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.