Dried Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1974 No. 122

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 ton 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 1971-1973, and that regulations shall not be made fixing an amount per ton 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 ton last recommended by that Committee to the Minister with respect to dried fruits of that kind of that season:

AND WHEREAS that rates last recommended by that Committee to the Minister with respect to dried fruits of the season that commenced on 1 January 1974 are a rate of $0.50 per ton in the case of dried vine fruits and a rate of $2.50 per ton in the case of dried tree fruits:

NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the 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 twenty third day of July, 1974.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) K. S. WRIEDT

Minister of State for Agriculture.

 

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Regulation 2 of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—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 1974 are—

(a) in the case of dried vine fruits—$0.50 per ton; and

(b) in the case of dried tree fruits—$2.50 per ton.”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 30 July 1974.

  Statutory Rules 1971, No. 166, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 12 and 120.

 

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