Tea Export Duty Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 58.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS TARIFF (EXPORT DUTIES) ACT 1951.*

WHEREAS by section six of the Customs Tariff (Export Duties) Act 1951 it is provided that the rate of the duty imposed by section five of that Act is a prescribed amount per pound of tea, being the amount which the Governor-General considers necessary to be prescribed for the purpose of recovering, in respect of tea to which the duty applies, the excess of the cost of that tea to the Tea Importation Board established under the Tea Importation Act 1951 or the Tea Control Board which was established under the National Security (Tea Control) Regulations over the amounts received by the first-mentioned Board or the second-mentioned Board upon the sale of that tea:

And whereas I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, consider the amount of Two shillings to be the amount necessary, on and from the first day of July, 1952, to be prescribed for the purpose aforesaid:

Now therefore I, the Governor-General aforesaid, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Tariff (Export Duties) Act 1951.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of July, 1952.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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AMENDMENT OF THE TEA EXPORT DUTY REGULATIONS. 

Rate of duty.

1. Regulation 3 of the Tea Export Duty Regulations is amended by omitting the words “and sixpence”.

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, 1952.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1952.

  Statutory Rules 1951, No. 163.

 

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

2629—PRICE 3D. 10/3.7.1952.