Wine Grapes Charges Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 99

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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 report to the Minister by the Australian Wine Board constituted by 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 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 One dollar fifty cents per ton in respect of fresh grapes and Four dollars fifty cents per ton in respect of dried grapes, being rates 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 first day of July, 1969.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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Amendment of the Wine Grapes Charges RECULATION  

After regulation 3 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Rate of charge.

“4. The rate 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 is—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes—One dollar fifty cents per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes—Four dollars fifty cents per ton.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1 July 1969.

  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. 8; 1963, No. 6; and 1967, No. 6.

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