STATUTORY RULES
1966 No. 8
REGULATIONS UNDER THE POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY ACT 1965.*
WHEREAS it is provided by section 6 of the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965 that—
(a) the rate of levy imposed by that Act is such amount in respect of each hen as is prescribed; and
(b) before making any regulations prescribing such an amount the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the rate of levy made to the Minister by the Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia, and regulations shall not be made prescribing a rate in excess of the rate last recommended by the Council to the Minister:
AND WHEREAS the Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia has recommended to the Minister that the rate of levy should be Two and four-fifths cents in respect of each hen:
NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and having taken into consideration the recommendation made by the Council of Egg Marketing Authorities of Australia, hereby make the following Regulations under the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965.
Dated this twenty-sixth day of January, 1966.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Primary Industry.
Amendment of the Poultry Industry Levy Regulations †
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the twenty-third day of February, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six.
Prescribed amount of levy.
2. Regulation 3 of the Poultry Industry Levy Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ Three and one-fourth pence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Two and four-fifths cents ”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 February, 1966.
† Statutory Rules 1965, No. 78.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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