Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1501

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Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after taking into consideration the recommendations made by the Australian Dried Fruits Corporation to the Minister of State for Primary Industry with respect to regulations to be made for the purposes of sections 6 and 8 of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Act 1978, hereby make the following Regulations under that Act.

Dated 4 July 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN BROWN

Minister of State for Administrative Services for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industry

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Rate of Levy

1. Regulation 2a of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(3) For the purposes of section 6 of the Act, the rate of levy in respect of dried fruit, being sultanas, produced during the season that commenced on 1 January 1984 is $860 per tonne.”.

2. Regulation 3 of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

 

Dried fruit exempt from levy

“3. For the purposes of sub-section 8 (3) of the Act, each of the following classes of dried fruit is exempt from levy imposed by sub-section 5 (1) of the Act:

(a) tunnel-dried fruit, being sultana or raisin variety grapes dried entirely by a process of artificial dehydration without the application of chemicals or an oil emulsion either by immersion or spray;

(b) currants produced during the season that commenced on 1 January 1984.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 July 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 71 as amended by 1982 No. 95; 1983 Nos. 97 and 294.