Wine Grapes Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE WINE GRAPES CHARGES ACT 1929-1969.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section 3 of the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1969 that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of that section that, subject to a lower rate being prescribed by the Regulations, the rate of the charge—

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

(b) in respect of dried grapes, shall be Seven dollars fifty cents per ton,

of grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 5 of that Act that the Governor-General may, after a report to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Wine Board constituted under the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929-1966, make regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Wine Board has reported to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the rates of the charge to be imposed on grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine should be Two dollars ten cents per ton in respect of fresh grapes and Six dollars thirty cents per ton in respect of dried grapes being raies lower than the rates imposed by the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1969:

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 Regulation under the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1969.

Dated this ninth day of February, 1972.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

 

Amendment of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations 

Rate of charge.

Regulation 4 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“4. The rates of the charge imposed by section 3 of the Act on all grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine are—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes—Two dollars ten cents per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes—Six dollars thirty cents per ton.”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

  Statutory Rules 1938, No. 26, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 11 and 54; 1941, No. 101; 1942, Nos. 96 and 305; 1945, Nos. 104 and 171; 1946, No. 88; 1952, No. 2; 1954. No, 122; 1959, Nos. 1 and 2; 1961. No. 3; 1962, No. 3; 1963, No. 6; 1967, No, 6; 1969, No. 99, and 1971, No. 14.

 

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