Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 70.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE EXPORT GUARANTEE ACT 1924-1925.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting on the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Export Guarantee Act 1924-1925, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 6th day of July ,1927.

(Sgd.) STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister for Markets and Migration.

CANNED FRUITS ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations.

Definition.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Assistance” means assistance under section five of the Export Guarantee Act 1924-1925, in respect of clingstone peaches canned in the Commonwealth during the period commencing on the first day of January, 1927, and ending on the thirty-first day of May, 1927, and exported to Great Britain from the Commonwealth on or before the twenty-eighth day of February, 1928.

Claims for assistance.

3. Any claim for assistance shall be in accordance with the form in the Schedule to these Regulations and shall be rendered in duplicate to the Secretary, Department of Markets and Migration, Melbourne.

Accounts to be kept.

4. (1) Each claimant for assistance shall keep proper and separate books of account showing in detail—

(a) the quantity of clingstone peaches purchased by the claimant;

(b) the amount paid to the grower for clingstone peaches;

(c) the name and address of the grower from whom the clingstone peaches were purchased; and

(d) such other particulars as the Minister from time to time requires.

(2) All account books kept under this regulation by a claimant for assistance and all documents in the possession or under the control of the claimant relating to canned clingstone peaches shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection and audit by any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister, and that person may, upon inspection or audit, make and take away extracts from those books of account and documents.

Repeal

5. The Canned Fruits Assistance Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1926, No. 84) are repealed.

C.9339.—Price 3d.

SCHEDULE.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Export Guarantee Act 1924-1925.

CLAIM FOR ASSISTANCE ON EXPORTATION OF CANNED CLINGSTONE PEACHES.

(a) Insert name and full address.

Dr. to (a)

Financial year 192 . State of

I hereby claim assistance under section five of the Export Guarantee Act 1924-1925 in respect of Canned Clingstone Peaches produced by me at my factory during the period commencing on the first day of January, 1927, and ending on the thirty-first day of May 1927, and exported by me to Great Britain per s.s.                                                                       on                                                       

Total—£  : ; , pounds   shillings   pence.

Signature of Producer.

(b) Insert name and full address of purchaser

(c) State name and address of seller.

In connexion with this claim the following additional particulars are furnished:—

(1) The Canned Clingstone Peaches were purchased by (b)

(2) The price per dozen    oz. tins at which the Canned Clingstone Peaches have been sold by (c)                                                         to the purchaser is as follows:—

(i) Gross price per dozen oz. tins c.i.f. or f.o.b.

(ii) Deductions from gross price by way of—

(a) Discount

(b) Commission

(c) Brokerage

(d) Rebate

(e) Any other allowances.

(d) Full name and address of seller.

(3) The net price per dozen f.o.b. Australian port received or to be received by  (d)                                                                       is                                                                                   

(e) State name and address of canner.

(4) The growers of the fresh fruit used in all canned apricots, clingstone peaches and pears manufactured by (e)                                                                                     during the 1927 season have received payment from (e)                                                                                     for such fresh fruit at not less than £10 per ton.

This rate shall—

(a) where the cannery is situated outside a metropolitan area include the cost of delivery to the cannery; and

(b) where the cannery is situated in a metropolitan area, include the cost of delivery at the railway station most convenient to the orchard where the fruit is grown.

Officers’ Certificates.

I certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, after due inquiry, the particulars and statements declared to in the claim for assistance are true and correct, and that the claimant is entitled to assistance on the goods specified in the claim.

Officer of Department of Markets and Migration.

Date  / / .

I certify that this account is correct within the meaning of section 34 of the Audit Act 1901-1926.

Certifying Officer.

Date / / 

Received on the  192 , from the sum of pounds shillings and pence, in full payment of the above account.

Witness to the payment and signature

Commonwealth of Australia.

STATUTORY DECLARATION.

I,     of        do solemnly and sincerely declare:—

(a) Description of person making declaration.

(b) Name of manufacturer.

(1) That I am (a)

(2) That (b)     was the producer of the canned clingstone peaches specified in the claim for assistance.

(3) That the canned clingstone peaches were produced by the said (b) at the factory mentioned in this claim for assistance.

(4) That the particulars contained in this claim for assistance are correct.

(5) That no other claim for assistance has been made nor has any assistance been granted under the Export Guarantee Act 1924-1925 in respect of the export of the canned clingstone peaches specified in this claim for assistance.

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1911, conscientiously believing the statements contained therein to be true in every particular.

(c) Signature of person making declaration.

(d) Signature of person before whom declaration is made.

(e) Here insert title of person before whom the declaration is made. That person must be a Police Stipendiary or Special Magistrate, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Affidavits, a Commissioner for Declarations, or a Notary Public.

(c)

Declared at    on the    day of    On thousand nine hundred and twenty.

Before me—    (d)

      (e)

Note.—Any person who wilfully makes a false statement in a statutory declaration is guilty of an indictable offence, and is liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for four years.

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