Egg Export Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No. 26.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES

ACT 1947.*

W HEREAS by section 5 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 it is provided, inter alia, thatthe Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Egg Board constituted in pursuance of the Egg Export Control Act 1947-1948, make regulations prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any eggs exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas the Australian Egg Board has made a report to the Minister that the rates of the charges imposed on eggs exported from the Commonwealth should be as prescribed by these Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Egg Export Charges Act 1947:

Now therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Egg Export Charges Act 1947.

Dated this eighteenth day of May, 1949.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

R. T. POLLARD

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

AMENDMENT OF THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of June, 1949.

2. After regulation 3 of the Egg Export Charges 'Regulations the  following regulation is added:—

Rates of charges.

" 4. The charges imposed and to be levied and paid under section 3 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 shall be imposed, levied and paid at the rates specified in the following Table:—

Kind of Eggs.

Rate of Charge in pence.

Eggs in shell.................................................................

11.25 per 30 dozen eggs

Liquid whole egg..........................................................

.45 per pound

Liquid egg white...........................................................

.45 per pound

Liquid egg yolk ............................................................

.45 per pound

Dried whole egg ...........................................................

1.35 per pound

Sugared dried egg ........................................................ ..

.9 per pound

Dried egg white

 ......................................................... ..

2.625 per pound

* Notified in Commonwealth Gazette on 10th May, 1949.

Statutory Rules 1948, No.17

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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