Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 105.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE RABBIT SKINS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1940.*

WHEREAS by section 4 of the Rabbit Shins 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 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 should be as prescribed 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 eighth day of June, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. K. NOCK

for Minister of State for Commerce.

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Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations.

Rate of charge on rabbit skins.

2. The charge imposed and to be levied and paid on rabbit skins exported from the Commonwealth shall be imposed, levied and paid at the rate of threepence for each pound of rabbit skins exported.

Officers to whom moneys to be paid.

3. Any moneys payable under section 4 of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Act 1940 shall be paid to one of the undermentioned officers:—

New South Wales—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Sydney.

Victoria—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Melbourne.

Queensland—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Brisbane.

South Australia—Collector of Customs, Port Adelaide.

Western Australia—Collector of Customs, Fremantle.

Tasmania—Collector of Customs, Hobart.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th June, 1940.

 

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

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