Wine Grapes Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 11.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WINE GRAPES CHARGES ACTS 1929-1937.*

WHEREAS by section five of the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1937 it is enacted that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Wine Board constituted under the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929-1936, make Regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine:

And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that the rates of charge to be imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine and delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine should be the rates prescribed by the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations as amended by the Regulations hereunder, being rates lower than the crates imposed by the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1937:

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 Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1937:

Dated this twenty second day ofFebruary, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Commerce.

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Amendments of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations. 

1. Regulation 4 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Rate of charge.

“4. The rate of the charge imposed and to be levied and paid by the owner of any winery or distillery under section 3 of the Act on grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes, shall be Two shillings per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes, shall be Six shillings per ton”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

  Statutory Rules 1938, No. 26.

640.—8/8.2.1939.—Price 3d.

 

2. Regulation 10 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Certificate in respect of charges imposed under section 3 of Act.

“10. In any action against a person for the recovery of the charge imposed by section 3 of the Act, a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary, Department of Commerce, certifying that—

(a) the person named in the certificate is the owner of the winery or distillery named in the certificate;

(b) the particulars of grapes delivered to that winery or distillery during a year are as stated in the certificate;

(c) the particulars of grapes handled by that winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine during a year are as stated in the certificate; and

(d) the sum named in the certificate was, at the date of the certificate, due by the person named in the certificate to the King on behalf of the Commonwealth in respect of the charge imposed by the Act,

shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate”.

 

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