Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938-1968.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (I.) of section 4 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1968 that charges are imposed and shall be levied and paid on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (2.) of that section that the amount of charge on any apples or pears exported—

(a) shall be calculated separately in respect of the apples or pears contained in each container; and

(b) shall be ascertained in accordance with the regulations, but is not to exceed an amount calculated at the rate of Five cents for each reputed bushel, or part of a reputed bushel, of apples or pears in the container:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 6 of that Act that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Apple and Pear Board constituted under the Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938-1971, make regulations for prescribing the manner of ascertaining the amounts of the charges imposed on any apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth

AND WHEREAS the Australian Apple and Pear Board has reported to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the manner of ascertaining the amounts of the charges to be imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth should be the manner specified in the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulation amended by the following Regulations:

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 1938-1968.

Dated this twenty fourth day of November, 1972.

Paul Hasluck,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. Ian Sinclair.

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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Amendment of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations†

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1973.

2. Regulation 4 of the Apple and pear Export Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Export charges.

“4.— (1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, the amount of the charge imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth is an amount of Five cents for each reputed bushel, or part of a reputed bushel, of the apples or pears contained in a container.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                             1972.

† Statutory Rules 1969, No. 14, as amended by Statutory Rules 1971, No, 10.

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“(2.) Where apples or pears are exported in a container containing not more than one and one-quarter bushels of apples or pears, the amount of the charge imposed on the apples or pears is an amount ascertained in accordance with the following table:—

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