Dried Fruit
(Export Inspection Charge) Act 1981
No. 59 of 1981
An Act to impose
a charge upon the export of dried fruit
[Assented to 12 June 1981]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title
1. This Act may be cited
as the Dried Fruit (Export Inspection Charge) Act 1981.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on 1 July 1981.
Collection
Act
3. The Dried Fruit (Export Inspection Charge)
Collection Act 1981 shall be incorporated and read as one with this Act.
Interpretation
4. In this Act, unless the
contrary intention appears, “charge” means the charge imposed by this Act.
Imposition
of charge
5. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), a charge is imposed on dried fruit
that is exported from Australia.
(2) Sub-section (1) does not
apply to dried fruit, or dried fruit included in a class of dried fruit, that
is exempt from the charge under the regulations.
Rates
of charge
6. (1) Subject to this section, the rate of charge in respect of dried
fruit is such rate as is applicable under the regulations to the class of dried
fruit in which that dried fruit is included.
(2) For the purposes of
sub-section (1), different rates of charge may be prescribed in respect of
different classes of dried fruit.
(3) The rate of charge in
respect of dried fruit shall not exceed $11.00 per tonne.
By
whom charge payable
7. The charge on dried
fruit exported from Australia is payable by the person (including a State or an
authority of a State) who exports the dried fruit.
Regulations
8.