Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 149.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE RABBIT SKINS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1940.*

WHEREAS by section 4 of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Act 1940 it is provided that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all rabbit skins exported from the Commonwealth after a date to be fixed by Proclamation and that the rate of charge shall be as prescribed after report to the Minister by the Australian Rabbit Skins Board constituted under the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Appropriation Act 1940 but shall not in any case exceed ninepence for each pound of rabbit skins exported:

And whereas the said Australian Rabbit Skins Board has reported to the Minister that the rate of charge imposed on rabbit skins exported from the Commonwealth on and after the first day of August, 1940, should be at the rates prescribed by the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations as amended by the Regulations hereunder:

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 Rabbit Skins Export Charges Act 1940.

Dated this thirty first

day of July, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce.

 

Amendment of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations.

Rate of charge on rabbit skins.

1. Regulation 2 of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations is amended by omitting the word “threepence” and inserting in its stead the word “sixpence”.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of August, 1940.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1940

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 105.

 

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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