STATUTORY RULES.
1954. No. 121.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938-1947.*
WHEREAS by section six of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1947 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 1938-1953, make regulations for 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 the rates prescribed by the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations, as amended by the following Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1947:
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 1938-1947.
Dated this eighth day of December, 1954.
W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.
AMENDMENT OF THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1955.
Rate of Charges,
2. Regulation 3 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Five-eighths of a penny” and inserting in their stead the words “Three-quarters of a penny”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.
† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 5; as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 57; 1949, No. 52; and 1952, Nos. 44, 82 and 103.
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