Dried Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3261

 

Dried Fruits Levy Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 1981 are the same as the rates of the levy fixed for the season that commenced on 1 January 1980:

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 4 November 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Primary Industry

Rate of levy

Regulation 2 of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations is amended by omitting “1980” and substituting “1981”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 November 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1971 No. 166 as amended by 1973 Nos. 12 and 120; 1974 No. 122; 1975 No. 168; 1976 No. 200; 1977 No. 154; 1978 No. 203; 1979 No. 270; 1980 No. 280.