Meat Export Charge Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No..

REGULATIONS UNDER THE MEAT EXPORT CHARGE ACT 1935-1954.

WHEREAS by section three of the Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954 it is enacted (inter alia) 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 1935-1953, 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 one-twentieth of a penny for each pound of meat exported from the Commonwealth :

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  second

day of  November , 1954.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Meat Export Charge Regulations.

Citation.

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

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the eight day of November, 1954.

Repeal.

3. The Meat Export Charges Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1936, No. 23 ; Statutory Rules 1937, No. 97 ; Statutory Rules 1938, No. 83 ; Statutory Rules 1940, No. 95 ; and Statutory Rules 1952, Nos. 43 and 81) are repealed.

Definition.

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

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Rate of Charge.

5. For the purposes of the Act, the rate of the charge is one-twentieth of a penny for each pound of meat exported.

Officer to whom moneys to be paid.

6. 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 Commerce and Agriculture, Sydney. ............................................................................	New South Wales
Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce and Agriculture, Melbourne ..............................................................................................................	Victoria
Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce and Agriculture, Brisbane ...................................................................................................................	Queensland
Collector of Customs, Adelaide ...................................................................	South Australia
Collector of Customs, Perth .........................................................................	Western Australia
Collector of Customs, Hobart ......................................................................	Tasmania

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