POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS
- Reprinted as at 31 August 1981 (HISTREG CHAP 172 #DATE 31:08:1981)
*1* The Poultry Industry Levy Collection Regulations (in force under the Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965) as shown in this reprint comprise Statutory Rules 1966 No. 154 as amended by the other Statutory Rules specified in the following table: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Application, saving Year and notification Date of or transitional number in Gazette commencement provisions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1966 No. 154 10 Nov 1966 10 Nov 1966 1974 No. 177 8 Oct 1974 8 Oct 1974 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
1. Citation
2. Repeal
3. Interpretation
4. Information to be furnished by owners of hens kept in a State
5. Returns to be furnished by owners of hens kept in the Australian
Capital Territory
6. Signature on notices and returns
7. Manner of furnishing notices or returns
8. Evidentiary provisions
9. Evidentiary provisions
10. Payment of levy
FIRST SCHEDULE
RETURN OF HENS KEPT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IN THE AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL
TERRITORY
SECOND SCHEDULE
NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF APPROPRIATE OFFICERS OF STATE EGG BOARDS
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 1.
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Industry Levy Collection
Regulations.*1*
See notes to first article of this CHAPTER.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 2.
Repeal
2. The Poultry Industry Levy Collection Regulations, being Statutory Rules
1965, No. 79, are repealed.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 3.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears-
''broiler breeder hen'', ''broiler chicken'' and ''prescribed period'' have
the same respective meanings as in section 8 of the Poultry Industry Levy Act
1965-1966;
''hen'' has the same meaning as in the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965-1966.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 4.
Information to be furnished by owners of hens kept in a State
4. An owner of hens kept for commercial purposes in a State shall, within
two weeks after a day on which levy is imposed in respect of hens so kept,
furnish, by notice in writing, to the State Egg Board for the State the
following information:
(a) the number of hens so kept by him on that day; and
(b) if any of those hens are broiler breeder hens-
(i) the number of broiler breeder hens so kept by him on that day;
(ii) the number of eggs produced by broiler breeder hens so kept by him
during the period that is the prescribed period in relation to that day; and
(iii) the number of eggs produced by broiler breeder hens so kept by him
during the period that is the prescribed period in relation to that day, being
eggs that have been or are to be used, whether by him or another person, for
the purpose of hatching broiler chickens.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 5.
Returns to be furnished by owners of hens kept in the Australian Capital
Territory
5. An owner of hens kept for commercial purposes in the Australian Capital
Territory shall, within two weeks after a day on which levy is imposed in
respect of hens so kept, furnish to the person for the time being occupying or
performing the duties of the office of Senior Finance Officer in the
Department of Primary Industry at Canberra, a return in accordance with the
form in the First Schedule to these Regulations in respect of hens so kept by
him on that day.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 6.
Signature on notices and returns
6. (1) A notice referred to in regulation 4 of these Regulations and a
return referred to in the last preceding regulation shall, subject to the
succeeding provisions of this regulation, be signed by the owner of the hens.
(2) If the owner of the hens is a company, the notice or the return, as the
case may be, shall be signed by a Director or the Secretary of the company or
by a person authorized by the company to sign notices or returns on its
behalf.
(3) If two or more persons own the hens, the notice or return may be signed
on their behalf by one of them.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 7.
Manner of furnishing notices or returns
7. (1) A notice referred to in regulation 4 of these Regulations shall, in
the case of hens kept in a State specified in the first column of the Second
Schedule to these Regulations be furnished to the State Egg Board for that
State-
(a) by posting (under pre-paid postage) the notice as a letter to the
officer of the Board specified, and at the address specified, in the second
column of that Schedule opposite to the name of that State; or
(b) by delivering it personally to an employee of the Board at the office
of the officer specified, and at the address specified, in the second column
of that Schedule opposite to the name of that State.
(2) A return referred to in regulation 5 of these Regulations shall be
furnished-
(a) by posting (under pre-paid postage) the return as a letter to the
Senior Finance Officer, Department of Primary Industry, Canberra; or
(b) by delivering it personally to the person for the time being occupying,
or performing the duties of, the office of Senior Finance Officer in the
Department of Primary Industry at Canberra.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 8.
Evidentiary provisions
8. (1) In this regulation, the appropriate officer in relation to the State
Egg Board for a State is the officer of that Board specified in the second
column of the Second Schedule to these Regulations opposite to the name of
that State and includes the person for the time being performing the duties of
such an officer.
(2) The appropriate officer of the State Egg Board for a State may, for the
purposes of this regulation, certify by instrument in writing under his hand-
(a) that, on a specified date, a specified person was the owner of hens
kept for commercial purposes at a specified address in that State; and
(b) that the person whose name is specified in the certificate did fail to
furnish, within two weeks after that specified date, to the State Egg Board
for that State, the notice in writing required to be furnished by him under
regulation 4 of these Regulations containing the information required to be
furnished in respect of hens kept by him on that specified date.
(3) An instrument purporting to be an instrument given for the purposes of
this regulation-
(a) is evidence of the facts stated in the certificate; and
(b) shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been signed by
the person by whom it purports to have been signed.
(4) If, in an instrument purporting to be an instrument given for the
purposes of this regulation, the person by whom it purports to have been
signed is described as the appropriate officer of the State Egg Board for a
State, that person shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have
been, on the date on which the instrument purports to have been signed, the
appropriate officer of the State Egg Board for the State.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 9.
Evidentiary provisions
9. (1) A reference in this regulation to the Senior Finance Officer in the
Department of Primary Industry shall be read as including a reference to the
person for the time being performing the duties of the office of Senior
Finance Officer in the Department of Primary Industry.
(2) The Senior Finance Officer in the Department of Primary Industry at
Canberra may, for the purposes of this regulation, certify by instrument in
writing under his hand-
(a) that, on a specified date, a specified person was the owner of hens
kept at a specified address for commercial purposes in the Australian Capital
Territory; and
(b) that the person whose name is specified in the certificate did fail to
furnish, within two weeks after that specified date, to the Senior Finance
Officer in the Department of Primary Industry, Canberra, the return required
to be furnished by him under regulation 5 of these Regulations in respect of
hens kept by him on that specified date.
(3) An instrument purporting to be an instrument given for the purposes of
this regulation-
(a) is evidence of the facts stated in the certificate; and
(b) shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been signed by
the person by whom it purports to have been signed.
(4) If, in an instrument purporting to be an instrument given for the
purposes of this regulation the person by whom it purports to have been signed
is described as the Senior Finance Officer, in the Department of Primary
Industry at Canberra, that person shall, unless the contrary is proved, be
deemed to have been, on the date on which the instrument purports to have been
signed, the Senior Finance Officer in the Department of Primary Industry at
Canberra.
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SECT. 10.
Payment of levy
10. An amount of levy imposed in respect of hens kept for commercial
purposes in the Australian Capital Territory is payable to the Senior Finance
Officer, Department of Primary Industry, Canberra.
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POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 1
SCH
THE SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation
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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965-1966
RETURN OF HENS KEPT FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IN THE AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL
TERRITORY
Name of Owner(s) of
Hens........................................................
Address of
Owner................................................................
(a) Insert address at which fowls are kept.
(b) Insert date in respect of which return is furnished.
(c) Insert number.
The number of female domesticated fowls that were not less than six months
old owned by the abovenamed and kept for commercial purposes at(a)
in the Australian Capital Territory on Thursday the(b)
day of (b) , 19 , being a prescribed day for the
purposes of the abovementioned Act, was(c)
* Strike out whichever is not applicable.
2.* I was not, on that date, the owner of any broiler breeder hens, that is
to say, hens used for the purpose of producing chickens to be used otherwise
than
for producing eggs.
(OR)
2.* I was, on that date, the owner of broiler breeder hens, that
is to say, hens used for the purpose of producing chickens to be used
otherwise
than for producing eggs.
I declare that the information contained in this return is true in every
particular.
Declared at this day of , 19
.
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..
(Signature.)
To:
The Senior Finance Officer,
Department of Primary Industry,
CANBERRA.
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POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 2
Amended by 1974 No. 177
SCH
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation
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NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF APPROPRIATE OFFICERS OF STATE EGG BOARDS
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-- State Name and Address of Appropriate Officer of State
Egg
Board
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New South Wales . . . The Secretary,
The Egg Marketing Board for the State of New South
Wales,
Nyrang Street,
Lidcombe
Victoria . . . . . . The Secretary,
Egg and Egg Pulp Marketing Board,
37 Fennell Street,
Port Melbourne
Queensland . . . . . The Secretary,
The Egg Marketing Board,
23 Musgrave Road,
Red Hill,
Brisbane
South Australia . . . The General Manager,
The South Australian Egg Board,
41-45 West Beach Road,
Keswick, 5035
Western Australia . . The Secretary,
The Western Australian Egg Marketing Board,
43-53 McGregor Road,
Palmyra, 6157
Tasmania . . . . . . The General Manager,
The Egg Marketing Board,
1 Gormanston Road,
Moonah
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