Meat Chicken Levy Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE MEAT CHICKEN LEVY ACT 1969.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 5 of the Meat Chicken Levy Act 1969 that a levy is imposed in respect of meat chickens hatched after the commencement of that Act:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section 7 of that Act that the rate of levy is—

(a) in respect of meat chickens hatched before the first day of July, 1972—one-tenth of a cent in respect of each chicken; and

(b) in any other case—such rate, not exceeding a rate of one-quarter of a cent in respect of each chicken, as is prescribed:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of section 7 of that Act that before making any regulations for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1.) of that section, the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the rate of levy made to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee and regulations shall not be made prescribing a rate higher than the rate last recommended by that Committee to that Minister:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee has recommended to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the rate of levy in respect of meat chickens hatched on or after the first day of July, 1972 should be one-tenth of a cent in respect of each chicken:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by section 16a of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901-1966 that where, in an Act, the Governor-General is referred to, the reference shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be deemed to include the person for the time being administering the Government of the Commonwealth and shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as referring to a person so deemed to be included in the reference acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, and after taking into consideration the recommendation with respect to the rate of levy made to the Minister of State for Primary industry by the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee, hereby make the following regulations under the Meat Chicken Levy Act 1969.

Dated this seventh day of July, 1972.

Rohan Delacombe

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industry.

  

MEAT CHICKEN LEVY REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Chicken Levy Regulations.

Rate of levy.

2. For the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 7 of the Meat Chicken Levy Act 1969, the rate of levy in respect of meat chickens is one-tenth of a cent in respect of each chicken.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

 

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