STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 5.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938.*
WHEREAS by section 6 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938 it is enacted that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Apple and Pear Board constituted under the Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938, make regulations prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth:
And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that the rates of the charges to be imposed on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth should be at the rates prescribed by the Regulations hereunder, being lower rates than the rates imposed by the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938:
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 Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938.
Dated this tenth day of January, 1940.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for Minister of State for Commerce.
Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations.
Commencement.
2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the day on which the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938 comes into operation.
Rate of charges.
3. The charges imposed and to be levied and paid under section 4 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938 shall be imposed, levied and paid at the rate of one half-penny for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported.
Officers to whom moneys to be paid.
4. Any moneys payable under section 4 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938 shall be paid to one of the undermentioned officers:—
New South Wales—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Sydney.
Victoria—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Melbourne.
Queensland—Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Commerce, Brisbane.
South Australia—Collector of Customs, Port Adelaide.
Western Australia—Collector of Customs, Fremantle.
Tasmania—Collector of Customs, Hobart.
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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