Export Expansion Grants Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 105

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXPORT EXPANSION GRANTS ACT 1978*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Export Expansion Grants Act 1978.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. GARLAND 26 JUN 1979

Minister of State for Special Trade Representation for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Resources

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AMENDMENTS OF THE EXPORT EXPANSION GRANTS REGULATIONS 

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1979.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 2 of the Export Expansion Grants Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting “, unless the contrary intention appears ” after “ Regulations ”;

(b) by inserting before the definition of “ development project ” the following definition:

“ ‘ cattle’ means bovine animals (other than buffaloes);”;

(c) by inserting after the definition of “forest operations” the following definitions:

“ ‘ hides ’ means hides or skins of cattle or sheep and includes such hides or skins at any stage of processing for the purpose of preservation up to and including the stage known as the wet blue stage or a stage that is commonly regarded as equivalent to that stage, but does not include such hides or skins that have been processed for any purpose beyond the wet blue stage or an equivalent stage;

  

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

Statutory Rules 1979 No. 13.

12801/79 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 12/22.6.1979

 

“ ‘ meat ’ means the flesh (other than flesh that has been cooked or smoked) of cattle or sheep, whether bone-in or bone-out, that is fresh, chilled or frozen;

“ ‘ offal ’ means any part of a cattle carcase or sheep carcase other than the flesh of the carcase, being a part that is fresh, chilled or frozen but does not include hides;

“ ‘ sheep ’ means ovine animals (other than goats);

“ ‘ tallow ’ means—

(a) tallow derived from cattle or sheep; or

(b) a tallow mix consisting of not less than 50% by weight of tallow derived from cattle or sheep;”; and

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following definition:

“ ‘ woodchips ’ means wood that has been broken down into a form suitable for the production of wood-pulp.”.

3. After regulation 4 of the Export Expansion Grants Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Excluded goods

“ 4a. Goods of each kind specified in Schedule 3 are declared to be excluded goods.”.

Schedule 3

4. The Export Expansion Grants Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE 3 Regulation 4a

EXCLUDED GOODS

hides

meat

offal

tallow

woodchips

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