Grain (Export Inspection Charge) Regulations

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 101

REGULATIONS UNDER THE GRAIN (EXPORT INSPECTION CHARGE) ACT 19791

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Grain (Export Inspection Charge) Act 1979.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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GRAIN (EXPORT INSPECTION CHARGE) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Grain (Export Inspection Charge) Regulations.

Interpretation

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

“container system unit” means a container (including a lift van, but not including a vehicle or a barge of the kind known as a lighter aboard ship barge), designed for repeated use as a unit of cargo handling equipment in the transport of goods by ships specially constructed, adapted or equipped for the handling and carrying of containers of the kind to which the container belongs in the course of a transportation system in which goods are transported to, in and from the ship in containers of that kind;

“the Act” means the Grain (Export Inspection Charge) Act 1979.

Grain exempt from charge

3. For the purposes of sub-section 5 (2) of the Act, grain not exceeding 10 tonnes in weight that is shipped for export to any one consignee is a class of grain that is exempt from charge.

Rates of charge

4. For the purposes of sub-section 6 (1) of the Act, the rate of charge applicable to a class of grain specified in column 1 of the Schedule is the

rate specified in column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the reference to that class in column 1.

SCHEDULE Regulation 4

RATES OF CHARGE

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.