STATUTORY RULES.
1962. No. 20.
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REGULATION UNDER THE MEAT EXPORT CHARGE ACT 1935-1954.*
WHEREAS by section three of the Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954 it is provided (amongst other things) that—
(a) a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all meat exported from the Commonwealth; and
(b) the regulations may, alter report to the Minister by the Australian Meat Board constituted under the Meat Export Control Act 1935-1960, prescribe different rates of the charge for different classes of meat, but so that no rate specified in the regulations shall exceed the rate of one-tenth of a penny for each pound of meat exported:
And whereas the Australian Meat Board has reported to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the rate of charge on meat other than canned meat should be one-fifteenth of a penny for each pound of meat exported and that the rate of charge on canned meat should be one-twentieth of a penny for each pound of canned meat exported.
Now therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Meat Export Charge Act 1935-1954.
Dated this twenty-second day of February, 1962.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(sgd.) C. F. ADERMANN
Minister of State for Primary Industry.
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AMENDMENT OF THE MEAT EXPORT CHARGE REGULATIONS.†
Regulation 5 of the Meat Export Charge Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Rates of charge.
“5. For the purposes of the Act, the rate of the charge is—
(a) for meat, other than canned meat—one-fifteenth of a penny for each pound of meat exported; and
(b) for canned meat—one-twentieth of a penny for each pound of meat exported.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st March, 1962.
† Statutory Rules 1954, No. 111, as amended by Statutory Rules 1955, No. 26.
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
871/62.—PRICE 3D. 10/16.2.1962.