Exports Expansion Grants Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 186

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXPORTS EXPANSION GRANTS

ACT 19781

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 Exports Expansion Grants Act 1978.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Trade and Resources

Amendments of the Exports Expansion Grants Regulations2

Commencement

 1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 1980.

Interpretation

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

• (a)

  by inserting after the definition of “forest operations” the following definition:

“ ‘gold’ includes an alloy containing gold the value of which exceeds the total value of all other ingredients in the alloy;”;

• (b)

  by inserting after the definition of “meat” the following definitions:

“ ‘meat and bone meal’ means the product obtained by drying and grinding meat pieces, containing a high proportion of bone, from warm-blooded land animals that is substantially free of hair, bristle, feathers, horn, hoof, skin and blood and of the contents of the stomach and viscera;

‘meat meal’ means the product obtained by drying and grinding carcasses and parts of carcasses of warm-blooded land animals, with the fat removed by process of extraction if necessary, that is virtually free of hair, bristle, feathers, horn, hoof, and skin and of the contents of the stomach and viscera;”;

• (c)

  by inserting after the definition of “sheep” the following definition:

“ ‘silver’ includes an alloy containing silver the value of which exceeds the total value of all other ingredients in the alloy;”; and

• (d)

  by inserting after the definition of “the Act” the following definition:

“ ‘unwrought aluminium’ includes an alloy containing aluminium the mass of which exceeds the total mass of all other ingredients in the alloy;”.

 3. Regulation 4A of the Exports Expansion Grants Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Excluded goods

• “4A.

  Goods of each kind specified in Column 2 of Schedule 3 in an item in that Schedule are declared to be excluded goods.”.

Schedule 3

 4.Schedule 3 to the Exports Expansion Grants Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

Schedule 3Regulation 4A

EXCLUDED GOODS

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Goods

1

gold

2

hides

3

meat

4

meat and bone meal

5

meat meal

6

mineral or metallic substances produced in the course of processing or treatment of the goods referred to in items 1, 8, 11, 12 and 13, including residues, speiss, slag, dross, scale, matte, sweepings, ash, sludge, slime and dust so produced, not being waste material

7

offal

8

silver

9

tallow

10

woodchips

11

unrefined copper

12

unrefined lead

13

unwrought aluminium

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 13 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 127 and see also