Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 49

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1965 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1950.*

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 Customs Act 1901-1965 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950.

Dated this tenth day of February, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendment of the Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.

2. Regulation 32 of the Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Fees for officer’s services.

“32.—(1.) Whenever, at the request of a person, the services of an officer are made available to the person for the purposes of these Regulations before or after the official hours or on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, the person shall, subject to sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, be charged for those services—

(a)where the services are made available on a Sunday—a fee of Three dollars per hour or part of an hour; or

(b) where the services are made available before or after the official hours or on a Saturday or holiday—a fee of Two dollars and twenty-five cents per hour or part of an hour.

“(2.) The time in respect of which the fee is charged includes the time reasonably occupied by the officer in proceeding to and returning from the place where his attendance is required.

“(3.) Where an officer is required to proceed on duty away from his ordinary station, the rate of charge to be made in respect of his services shall be fixed by the Minister.

“(4.) In this regulation—

‘holiday’ in relation to the services of an officer on a day, means a day observed, at the place at which the attendance of the officer is required, as a holiday under section 76 of the Public Service Act 1922-1964;

‘officer’ has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Customs Act 1901-1965.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 11 February, 1966.

  Statutory Rules 1955, No. 61, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, Nos. 20, 27 and 123; 1957, No. 36; 1958, No. 24; 1959, No. 6; 1960, Nos. 16 and 38; 1961, Nos. 20 and 111; 1962, No. 37; 1963, Nos. 15 and 40; 1964, Nos. 11 and 28; and 1965, No. 22.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

16342/65.—Price 6d. (5c) 10/18.1.1966