Dried Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 154

REGULATION UNDER THE DRIED FRUITS LEVY ACT 1971*

WHEREAS it is enacted 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 enacted by sub-section 6 (3) 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 1977 are a rate of $1 per tonne in the ease of dried vine, fruits, a rate of $2.50 per tonne in the case of prunes and a rate of $5 per tonne in the case of dried tree fruits other than prunes:

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 recommendation with respect to the rates last recommended to the Minister by the Dried Fruits Research Committee, hereby make the following Regulation under the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971.

Dated this ninth day of September 1977.

John H. Kerr

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Ian Sinclair

Minister of State for Primary Industry

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 September 1977.

14979/77 Cat. No.  —Recommended retail price 10c  15/19.8.1977

 

AMENDMENT OF THE DRIED FRUITS LEVY REGULATIONS*

Regulation 2 of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Rate of levy

“2. For the purposes of sub-section 6 (2) of the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971, the rates of the levy in respect of dried fruits of the season that commenced on 1 January 1977 are—

(a) in the case of dried vine fruits—$1 per tonne;

(b) in the case of dried plums—$2.50 per tonne; and

(c) in the case of dried tree fruits other than dried plums—$5 per tonne.”.

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

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