Exports (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1974 No. 229

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1974 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1974 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1973.

Dated this fourth day of December, 1974.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

K. S. WRIEDT

Minister of State for Agriculture and for and on behalf

of the Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

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Amendments of the Exports (General) Regulations  

Fees for offices’ services.

Regulation 30 of the Exports (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—

“(1) Subject to sub-regulation (3), where, at the request of a person, the services of an officer are made available to the person for the purposes of these Regulations, the person shall be charged—

 (a) in respect of services rendered—

(i) on a week day either before the hour of 7 o’clock in the morning or after the hour of 10 o’clock in the night of that day; or

(ii) on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday,

a fee of $1.40 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered;

 (b) in respect of services rendered on a week day after the hour of 5 o’clock in the afternoon and before the hour of 10 o’clock in the night of that day—a fee of $1.05 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered; or

 (c) in respect of services rendered on a week day after the hour of 7 o’clock in the morning and before the hour of 5 o’clock

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 6 December 1974.

 Statutory Rules 1954, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1954, Nos. 42 and 91; 1955, No. 91; 1956, Nos. 7 and 120; 1960, Nos. 40 and 69; 1963, Nos. 29 and 142; 1964, No. 153; 1966, No. 51; and1969,Nos.35and139.

 

in the afternoon of that day, being services so rendered for more than eight hours—a fee of $1.05 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered after the services have been so rendered for eight hours.

“(2) In calculating the fee to be charged a person under sub-regulation (1) in respect of the services of an officer made available to him, the time reasonably occupied by the officer in proceeding to and returning from the place where his attendance is required shall be treated as time during which the services are rendered.”; and

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (4) the following definition:—

“‘week day’ in relation to the services of an officer on a day, means a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday that is not a holiday.”.