STATUTORY RULES.
1951. No. 163.
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 Deputy of 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
and six pence to be the amount necessary to be prescribed for the purpose
aforesaid:
Now therefore I, the Deputy of 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 fourteenth day of
December 1951.
J. NORTHCOTT
Deputy
of the Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
(sgd.) Paul Hasluck
for
Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
Tea Export Duty Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Tea Export Duty Regulations.
Definition.
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears, “the
Act” means the Customs Tariff (Export Duties) Act 1951.
Rate
of duty.
3. The rate of the duty
prescribed in accordance with section 6 of the Act is Two shillings and
sixpence.
Commencement.
4. These Regulations shall
come into operation on the day on which the Act comes into operation.
*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1951.
By Authority: L. f. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
6124.—Price 3d. 10/4.12.1951.