STATUTORY RULES.

1950. No. 31.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES

ACT 1947.*

WHEREAS by section 5 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 it is provided, inter alia, that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Egg Board, constituted in pursuance of the Egg Export Control Act 1947-1948, make regulations prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any eggs exported from the Commonwealth :

And whereas the Australian Egg Board has made a report to the Minister that the rates of the charges imposed on eggs exported from the Commonwealth should be as prescribed by the Egg Export Charges Regulations as amended by these Regulations being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 :

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 Regulations under the Egg Export Charges Act 1947.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of June, 1950.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. McEWEN

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

AMENDMENT OF THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.†

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1950.

2. Regulation 4 of the Egg Export Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Rates of charges.

" 4. The charges imposed and to be levied and paid under section 3 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 shall be imposed, levied and paid at the rates specified in the following table :—

Kind of Eggs.

Rate of Charges in Pence.

Eggs in shell .........................

Liquid whole egg......................

Liquid egg white ......................

Liquid egg yolk.......................

Dried whole egg .......................

Sugared dried egg ......................

Dried egg white .......................

13.125 per 30 doz. eggs

.525 per pound

1.575 per pound

1.05 per pound

3.0625 per pound ".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th June, 1950.

† Statutory Rules 1948, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1949, No. 26.

By Authority : L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.