Dairying Research Levy Collection Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DAIRYING RESEARCH LEVY

COLLECTION ACT 1972.*

 

I, THE Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Dairying Research Levy Collection Act 1972.

Dated this fourteenth day of July, 1972.

Rohan Delacombe

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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DAIRYING RESEARCH LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Dairying Research Levy Collection Regulations.

Interpretation.

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

(a) a reference to a person who purchases whole milk or butter fat shall be read as a reference to a person who purchases whole milk or butter fat on which levy is imposed from the producer of that whole milk or butter fat; and

(b) a reference to an authorized agent shall be read as a reference to a person appointed in pursuance of regulation 6 of these Regulations to be an authorized agent.

Manner of payment of levy, &c.

3. —(1.) Payment of levy or other amounts payable to the Commonwealth under the Dairying Research Levy Collection Act 1972 in respect of whole milk or butter fat purchased in a State shall be made at the office of the Department of Primary Industry in the capital city of that State.

 (2.) Payment of levy or other amounts payable to the Commonwealth under the Dairying Research Levy Collection Act 1972 in respect of whole milk or butter fat purchased in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia shall be made at the office of the Department of Primary Industry in Canberra.

Returns.

4. —(1.) Where, in a month, a person purchases any whole milk or butler fat, the purchaser shall, on or before the twenty-eighth day of the next succeeding month, furnish to the Secretary, as provided by the next succeeding sub regulation, a return and declaration, in accordance with Form 1 in the Schedule to these Regulations, with respect to the whole milk or butter fat so purchased.

(2.) A return with respect to whole milk or butter fat purchased—

(a) shall be signed by the purchaser or one of the purchasers, by the authorized agent of the purchaser or of one of the purchasers or, of the purchaser is a company, by a director or the secretary of the company; and

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*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972

16184/72—Price 8c 11/16.6.1972.

 

(b)  shall be furnished to the Secretary by delivering it—

(i) in the case of whole milk or butter fat purchased in a State— at the office of the Department of Primary Industry in the capital city of that State; or

(ii) in the case of whole milk or butter fat purchased in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia—at the office of the Department of Primary Industry in Canberra.

Proper records to be kept.

5. A person who purchases whole milk or butter fat shall keep or cause to be kept proper records showing, in respect of each month, the quantity of whole milk and the quantity of butter fat purchased by him during that month.

Penalty: Two hundred dollars.

Authorized agents.

6. —(1.) A person who purchases whole milk or butter fat may appoint a person to be his authorized agent for the purpose of executing, from time to time, on his behalf the declarations in forms in accordance with Form 1 in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2.) The appointment of an authorized agent by the purchaser of whole milk or butter fat—

(a) shall be in accordance with Form 2 in the Schedule to these Regulations; and

• (b)

  shall be lodged—

  (i) where the appointment relates to whole milk or butter fat purchased in a State—at the office of (he Department of Primary industry in that State; and

  (ii) where the appointment relates to whole milk or butter fat purchased in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory of Australia—at the office of the Department of Primary Industry in Canberra.

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THE SCHEDULE

Form 1

Regulation 4

Commonwealth oF Australia

Dairying Research Levy Collection Act

RETURN OF WHOLE MILK AND BUTTER FAT* PURCHASED

Name of purchaser

Address of purchaser

Particulars of whole milk and butter fat* purchased during the month of

19 , by the abovementioned person, and particulars of the levy payable in respect of that whole milk and butter fat,* are as follows: —

Commodity	Quantity	Rate of levy	Amount of levy payable
cents	$
*Butter Fat..................	cwt	per cwt
*Whole Milk...............	gals	per gal
Total Levy..........................

 

DECLARATION

I, (full name and address), declare—

1. That I am the purchaser (or as the case may be) of the abovementioned whole milk and butter fat.*

2. That the information contained in the above return is true in every particular.

Declared at this day of , 19 .

(Signature)

Witness (Signature, address and occupation)

To the Secretary to the Department of Primary Industry.

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* If the return relates only to whole milk or only to butter fat, strike out the reference to butter fat or whole milk, as the case may be.

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Regulation 6

Form 2

Commonwealth of Australia

Dairying Research Levy Collection Act

APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT

To the Secretary to the Department of Primary Industry

I, (full name and address of purchaser), hereby appoint (full name, address and occupation of authorized agent), a specimen of whose signature appears on this appointment, to be my authorized agent for the purpose of executing, from time to time, on my behalf the declarations in forms in accordance with Form 1 in the Schedule to the Dairying Research Levy Collection Regulations,

Dated at.

this day of , 19  .

(Signature)

Witness (Signature, address and occupation)

(Signature of authorized agent).

                 

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