Poultry Industry Levy Collection Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 79.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1965.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965.

Dated this 18th day of June, 1965.

HENRY ABEL SMITH

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

 

POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Industry Levy Collection Regulations.

Definitions.

2. 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;

“hen” has the same meaning as in the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965.

Information to be furnished.

3. An owner of hens kept for commercial purposes shall, within two weeks after a day on which levy is imposed in respect of hens so kept, furnish, if the hens are kept in a State, to the State Egg Board for the State or, if the hens are kept in the Australian Capital Territory, to the Secretary to the Department of Primary Industry, Canberra, 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

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18 June, 1965.

6663/65.—Price 6d. 10/9.6.1965.

 

(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.

Payment of levy.

4. An amount of levy imposed in respect of hens kept for commercial purposes in the Australian Capital Territory is payable to the Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Canberra.

 

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