Canned Fruits Export Marketing
No. 29 of 1970
An Act to provide for the Payment of certain Moneys from the Canned Fruits Excise Fund to Producers of Canned Fruits.
[Assented to 17 June 1970]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Canned Fruits Export Marketing Act 1970.
(2.) The Canned Fruits Export Marketing Act 1963–1968, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Canned Fruits Export Marketing Act 1963–1970.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Application of moneys in the Canned Fruits Excise Fund.
3. Section 28 of the Canned Fruits Export Marketing Act 1963–1968 is amended—
(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “but”, the words “ , subject to sub-section (3.) of this section”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
“(3.) Where a person has paid any duty of Excise that became payable in accordance with the Canned Fruit Excise Act 1963–1968 during the period that commenced on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, and ended on the twenty-seventh day of March, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, not being duty that has been refunded or in respect of which an amount has been paid as drawback, the Board shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this sub-section, pay to the person, out of moneys standing to the credit of the Canned Fruits Excise Fund, an amount equal to two-thirds of that duty.”.