Dried Fruits Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 12

REGULATION UNDER THE DRIED FRUITS LEVY ACT 1971.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of section 6 of the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971 that, subject to sub-section (1.) of that section, 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 (3.) of that section that, before making any regulations for the purposes of sub-section (2.) of that section, 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 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 the rates last recommended by that Committee to the Minister with respect to dried fruits of the season that commenced on the first day of January, 1972, are a rate of Fifty cents per ton in the case of dried vine fruits and Two dollars fifty cents per ton in the case of dried tree fruits:

NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after taking into consideration the recommendation with respect to the rate 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 eighteenth day of January, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

K. S. WRIEDT

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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Amendment of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations

Rate of levy.

Regulation 2 of the Dried Fruits Levy Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“ (2.) For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 6 of the Dried Fruits Levy Act 1971, the rates of the levy in respect of dried fruits of the season that commenced on the first day of January, 1972, are—

(a)in the case of dried vine fruits—Fifty cents per ton; and

(b)in the case of dried tree fruits—Two dollars fifty cents per ton.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25 January 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1971, No. 166.