Wheat Tax Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2231

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Wheat Tax Regulations2 (Amendment)

WHEREAS sub-section 5 (1) of the Wheat Tax Act 1957 provides that the rate of tax imposed by that Act upon wheat that is delivered to the Australian Wheat Board shall be such rate, not exceeding 30 cents per tonne, as is prescribed from time to time:

AND WHEREAS sub-section 5 (2) of that Act provides that regulations prescribing a rate of tax shall not be made except after consideration by the Governor-General of a report made to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after consideration of the report made to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, hereby make the following Regulations under the Wheat Tax Act 1957.

Dated 9 September 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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Prescribed rate of tax on wheat

1. Regulation 3 of the Wheat Tax Regulations is amended by omitting "20" and substituting "25".

Commencement

2. Regulation 1 shall come into operation on 1 October 1982.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth Of Australia Gazette on 17 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 263 as amended by 1975 No. 190; 1978 No. 191.