Excise Regulations 1925 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 60.

REGULATION UNDER THE EXCISE ACT 1901-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Excise Act, 1901-1934.

Dated this second day of August, 1939.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Excise Regulations 1925.

Regulations 206, 207, 208 and 209 of the Excise Regulations 1925 are repealed and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

“206.—(1.) Subject to regulations 207 and 208 of these Regulations, business relating to the Excise shall be conducted only on the working days and during the working hours prescribed by this regulation.

(2.) Subject to sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, the working days shall be all days except Sundays and public holidays.

(3.) Subject to sub-regulation (4.) of this regulation, the working hours shall be—

(a) for officers supervising the receipt, delivery or manufacture of goods, or supervising any operation carried on under the Excise Act 1901-1934 or those Regulations—8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday to Friday, and 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday;

(b) for other officers 9 a.m. to 4.45 p.m. on Monday to Friday, and 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday.

(4.) The Collector may direct that the working days at any factory shall be Monday to Friday (but not including any public holiday) and that the working hours at any such factory shall be such hours worked from Monday to Friday in equal daily periods, as he specifies:

Provided that the working hours shall not exceed 44 hours per week, and shall not commence before 7 a.m. on any day.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

  Statutory Rules 1925, No. 181, as amended by Statutory Rules 1926, No. 70; 1928, No. 131; 1929, Nos. 74, 92 and 97; 1930, No. 71; 1931, Nos. 25 and 43; 1932, Nos. 13, 51, 105 and 129; 1933, Nos. 37 and 103; 1934, Nos. 9, 65 and 76; 1936, Nos. 26, 56 and 99; 1939, Nos. 5 and 39.

3639.—8/6.7.1939.—Price 3d.

“207. The Minister may permit work to be carried on, for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 206 of these Regulations, on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day or Eight Hours’ Day for such time and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, and the Collector may permit work to be carried on, for any of those purposes, on any other day which is not a working day for such time and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.

“208. The Collector may permit work to be carried on, for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 206 of these Regulations, outside the working hours fixed by sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) of regulation 206 of these Regulations.

“209.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, where the Minister or the Collector, as the case may be, permits work to be carried on for any of the purposes specified in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 206 of these Regulations, otherwise than on a working day or during the working hours, a charge shall be made for the services of officers so working at the rate of Four shillings and sixpence per hour or part thereof.

(2.) The charge shall be calculated from the hour from which the attendance of the officer is necessary, and shall include a charge in respect of the time reasonably occupied by the officer in proceeding to and from the place where his attendance is required.

(3.) Where the Collector permits work to be carried on for any of the purposes specified in sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 206 of these Regulations regularly for sixteen or twenty-four hours per day continuously, a charge shall not be made in pursuance of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation for the services of officers working during those hours, except for services between noon on Saturday and 6 a.m. on Monday or on a public holiday.”.

 

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