EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1987 No 251
Issued by the authority of the Minister of State for Resources
Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Act 1985
Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations (Amendment)
Section 10 of the Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Act 1985 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations prescribe charges on prescribed commodities in respect of which an export permit is granted.
The proposed Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations (Amendment), which will come into operation on 1 November 1987, set revised charges for dried fruit, grain and dairy produce and exempt dairy produce prepared at an establishment which has an approved quality control system plan in force.