Poultry Industry Levy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 94

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY ACT 19651

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 6 (1) of the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965 that the rate of levy imposed by that Act is such amount in respect of each hen as is prescribed:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 6 (2) of that Act that, before making any regulations for the purposes of sub-section 6 (1), the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the rate of levy made to the Minister by The Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia, and that regulations shall not be made prescribing a rate in excess of the rate last recommended by that Council to the Minister:

AND WHEREAS the rate last recommended by that Council to the Minister is a rate of 7 cents in respect of each hen for each prescribed day on or after 1 July 1979:

NOW THEREFORE I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 by The Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia, hereby make the following Regulations under the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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AMENDMENT OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY REGULATIONS2

1. Regulation 3 of the Poultry Industry Levy Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Prescribed amount of levy

“3. For the purposes of sub-section 6 (1) of the Act the rate of the levy imposed by section 5 of the Act on each prescribed day in respect of hens kept for commercial purposes on that day is the amount of 7 cents in respect of each hen.”.

Commencement

2. Regulation 1 shall come into operation on 1 July 1979.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1965 No. 78 as amended by Statutory Rules 1966 Nos. 8 and 107; 1967 Nos. 32, 84 and 127; 1968 No. 59; 1969 No. 82; 1970 No. 73; 1971 No. 62; 1977 No. 54; and 1978 No. 64.