Dried Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 203

REGULATION UNDER THE DRIED FRUITS LEVY ACT 1971*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 6 (2) of the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971 that, subject to sub-section 6 (1), the regulations may fix an amount per tonne as the rate of the levy imposed by that Act in respect of a specified kind of dried fruits of a specified season:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 6 (3) of that Act that, before making any regulations for the purposes of sub-section 6 (2), the Governor-General shall take into consideration any relevant recommendation with respect to a rate of levy made to the Minister by the Dried Fruits Research Committee constituted under the Dried Fruits Research Act 1971, and that regulations shall not be made fixing an amount per tonne as the rate of the levy with respect to dried fruits of a specified kind of a specified season that is higher than the amount per tonne last recommended by that Committee to the Minister with respect to dried fruits of that kind of that season:

AND WHEREAS the rates last recommended by that Committee to the Minister with respect to dried fruits of the season that commenced on 1 January 1978 are the same as for the season that commenced on 1 January 1977, namely, a rate of $1 per tonne in the case of dried vine fruits, a rate of $2.50 per tonne in the case of dried plums and a rate of $5 per tonne in the case of dried tree fruits other than dried plums:

NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after taking into consideration the relevant recommendation with respect to the rates of levy made to the Minister by the Dried Fruits Research Committee, hereby make the following Regulation under the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971.

Dated this nineteenth day of October 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

SGD. IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 October 1978.

14080/78 Cat. No.  —Recommended retail price 10c 14/1.9.1978

 

AMENDMENT OF THE DRIED FRUITS LEVY REGULATIONS*

Rate of levy

Regulation 2 of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations is amended by omitting “ 1977 ” and substituting “ 1978 ”.

* Statutory Rules 1971, No, 166 as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 12 and 120; 1974, No. 122; 1975, No. 168; 1976, No. 200; and 1977, No. 154.

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