Statutory Rules
1974 No. 232
REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1974.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1974.
Dated this fourth day of December, 1974.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
K. S. WRIEDT
Minister of State for Agriculture for and on behalf
of the Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
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Amendments of the Exports (Grain) Regulations†
Fees for officers’ services.
Regulation 15 of the Exports (Grain) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—
“(1) Subject to sub-regulation (3), where, at the request of a person, the services of an officer are made available to the person for the purposes of these Regulations, the person shall be charged—
(a) in respect of services rendered on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday—a fee of $1.55 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered;
(b) in respect of services rendered on a week day either before the hour of 7 o’clock in the morning or after the hour of 5 o’clock in the evening of that day—a fee of $1.15 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered; or
(c) in respect of services rendered on a week day after the hour of 7 o’clock in the morning and before the hour of 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, being services so rendered for more than eight hours—a fee of $1.15 for each quarter-hour or part of a quarter-hour during which the services are so rendered after the services have been so rendered for eight hours.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 6 December 1974.
† Statutory Rules 1963, No. 10, as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, No. 144; 1966, No. 44; 1968, Nos. 121 and 144; 1969, No. 28; 1970, No. 80; and 1972, No. 151.
“(2) In calculating the fee to be charged a person under sub-regulation (1) in respect of the services of an officer made available to him, the time reasonably occupied by the officer in proceeding to and returning from the place where his attendance is required shall be treated as time during which the services are rendered.”; and
(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (4) the following definition:—
“‘week day’ in relation to the services of an officer on a day, means a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday that is not a holiday.”.