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

STATUTORY RULES.

1958. No. 24.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1957 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 1901-1957 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950.

Dated this ninth day of April, 1958.

W. J. Slim

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.

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Amendments of the Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations. 

False declarations.

1. Regulation 20 of the Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) A person shall not—

(a) make a false or misleading statement in a document furnished or delivered in pursuance of the last preceding regulation; or

(b)furnish to the Department, or deliver to an officer, in pursuance of that regulation a document that contains a false or misleading statement.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.”.

Second Schedule.

2. The Second Schedule to the Exports (Fresh Fruit) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of item 5 and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b) each side shall consist of two, three or four pieces, each piece being 19 ¼ inches long by ¼ to ⅜ inch thick and not less than 3 ¼ inches wide, the combined width of all pieces being not less than—

(i) if the side consists of two or four pieces—13¼ inches; or

(ii) if the side consists of three pieces—12 ¾ inches.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th April, 1958.

  Statutory Rules 1955, No. 61, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, Nos. 20, 27 and 123; and 1957, No. 36.

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

993/58.—Price 3d. 10/5.3.1958.