Meat Export Charge Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 31.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE MEAT EXPORT CHARGE

ACT 1935-1954.*

WHEREAS by section three of the Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954 it is provided, amongst other things, that—

(a) a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all meat exported from the Commonwealth; and

(b) the regulations may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Meat Board constituted under the Meat Export Control Act 1935-1960, prescribe the rate of the charge, but so that no rate specified in the regulations shall exceed the rate of one-tenth of a penny for each pound of meat exported:

And whereas the Australian Meat Board has reported to the Minister that the rate of charge should be as set forth in the following Regulations:

Now therefore 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 Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of March, 1962.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(sgd.) C. F. ADERMANN

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

MEAT EXPORT CHARGE REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1.These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Export Charge Regulations.

Commencement.

2.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of March, 1962.

(2.) Regulation 6 of these Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1962.

Repeal.

3. The Meat Export Charge Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1954, No. 111; Statutory Rules 1955, No. 26; and Statutory Rules 1962, No. 20) are repealed.

Definition.

4. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th March, 1962.

2104/62.—PRICE 3D. 9/12.3.1962.

Rates of charge in respect of meat exported during March, 1962.

5. For the purposes of the Act, the rate of charge in respect of meat exported between the date of commencement of this regulation and the thirty-first day of March, 1962, (inclusive) is—

(a) for meat, other than canned meat—one-twentieth of a penny for each pound of meat exported; and

(b) for canned meat—one twenty-fifth of a penny for each pound of meat exported.

Rates of charge in respect of meat exported after March, 1962.

6.For the purposes of the Act, the rate of the charge is—

(a) for meat, other than canned meat—one-fifteenth of a penny for each pound of meat exported; and

(b) for canned meat—one twentieth of a penny for each pound of meat exported.

Officer to whom moneys to be paid.

7. For the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section 3 of the Act, each officer holding, occupying or performing the duties of an office designated in the first column of the following table is, in respect of the State the name of which appears opposite to that designation in the second column of that table, a prescribed officer:—

Designation of Office.	State.
Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Sydney ..............................	New South Wales
Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Melbourne ........................	Victoria
Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Brisbane ...........................	Queensland
Collector of Customs, Adelaide ..................................................................................................	South Australia
Collector of Customs, Perth .........................................................................................................	Western Australia
Collector of Customs, Hobart .....................................................................................................	Tasmania

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