Dried Fruits Export Control (Poll) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

S T A T U T O R Y R U L E S.

1924.        Mo. 187.

R E G U L A T I O N S TINDER T H E D R I E D F R U I T S E X P O R T

CONTROL ACT 1924,

I, T H E G O V E R N O R - G E N E R A L IN and over the Commonwealth

of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive

Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Dried	Fruits
Export Control Act 1924, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this third day of December, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

AMENDMENT or D R I E D FRUITS E X P O R T C O N T R O L ( P O L L ) REGULATIONS.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 1 7 8. )

1. Regulation 6 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Pol l) Regula- tions is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation ;—

The roll for each State shall be the roll of growers to be used for the purposes of the poll in the State to which the roll refers and shall be certified by the Returning Officer or a Deputy Return- ing Officer by writing under his hand to be correct."

" ( 1. )

C. 1 8 5 0 8. — P R I C E 3D.

2. Regulation 16 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Poll) Regula- tions is amended by omitting the words " a t any time before three o'clock in the afternoon of the day next preceding the day fixed for the close of the poll."

3. Regulation 17 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Poll) Regula- tions is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regula- tion :—

The Returning Officer shall keep a locked and sealed bal- lot-box (in these Regulations referred to as 'the special ballot-box') with the words Dried Frui ts Export Control Poll.. Special Ballot box. Voting papers received from V o t e r ' marked thereon, and shall place and keep therein until the scrutiny all envelopes, re- ceived by him after four o'clock in the afternoon of the day fixed for the close of the poll, containing voting papers to be admitted to the scrutiny in pursuance of sub-regulation ( 1 A . ) of the next succeeding regulation."

''(2.)

4. Regulation 18 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Poll) Regu-

lations is amended—

(a) by inserting at the commencement of sub-regulation (1.)

the words "Subject to the next succeeding sub-regula-

t i o n "; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation ( 1. ) the following sub-

regulation :—

" ( 1 A . ) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, where the Minister is satisfied that, by reason of circumstances beyond the control of a grower, the voting-paper of the grower could not have been sent by the grower to the Return- ing Officer so as to reach the Returning Officer at or before four o'clock in the afternoon of the day fixed for the close of the poll, the Minister may direct that the voting paper shall be admitted to the scrutiny if it is received at or before four o'clock in the afternoon of a day fixed by the Minister as the last day for the receipt of the voting paper and the voting paper shall be. ad- mitted to the scrutiny accordingly."

5. Regulation 20 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Pol l) Regu-

lations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words " l a s t day for the receipt of voting p a p e r s: — " and inserting in their stead the words " d a y fixed for the close of the poll open the ballot-box and at four o'clock in the afternoon of the last day for the receipt of voting papers to be admitted to the scrutiny under sub-regulation (1A .) of regulation 18 of these Regu-

lations, open the special ballot-box a n d — "; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) the words "open the

ballot-box a n d ".

6. Regulation 21 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Poll) Regu-

lations is amended by omitting the word " p a r a g r a p h " and inserting in

its stead the word " r egu la t ion".

7. Regulation 23 of the Dried Frui ts Export Control (Pol l ) Regu-

lations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following

sub-regulation:—

" ( 1 A. ) "Where the Returning Officer is satisfied that the votes recorded on the voting' papers to be admitted to the scrutiny under sub-regulation (1A.) of regulation 18 of these Regulations could not possibly affect the result of the poll, he may, without awaiting the result of the scrutiny of the voting-papers so to be admitted to the scrutiny make out and transmit to the Minister the statement re- ferred to in the last preceding sub-regulation, and the Minister may, without .awaiting that result, announce the result of the poll and cause notice of the result of the poll to be published in the Gazette."

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