STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 73.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CANNED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1926-1952.*

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952 it is enacted, amongst other things, that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all canned fruits which are exported from the Commonwealth and that, subject to a lower rate being prescribed by the Regulations in respect of any of the kinds of canned fruits to which that Act applies, the rate of charge shall be one-fourth of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned fruits exported:

And whereas by section 4 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952 it is enacted, amongst other things, that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Canned Fruits Board constituted under the Canned Fruits Export Control Act 1926-1956, make Regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on any kind of canned fruits exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that on and after the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, the rate of charge should be One-sixth of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned fruits (other than canned pineapple juice) exported and the rate of charge should be Three-twenty-fourths of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned pineapple juice 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 Regulations under the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952.

Dated this   5th

day of  December , 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) P A Mc BRIDE

Minister of State for Defence for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industry.

Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulation shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1958.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th December, 1957.

6971/57.—Price 3d.  10/25.11.1957.

Repeal.

3. The Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1953, No. 9 and Statutory Rules 1954, No. 124) are repealed.

Definition.

4. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1952.

Rates of charge.

5. For the purposes of the Act—

(a) the rate of charge shall be One-sixth of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned fruits (other than canned pineapple juice) exported; and

(b) the rate of charge shall be Three-twenty-fourths of a penny for each thirty ounces of canned pineapple juice exported.

Officer to whom moneys to be paid.

6. For the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section 3 of the Act, each officer holding, occupying or performing the duties of an office designated in the first column of the following table is, in respect of the State the name of which appears opposite to that designation in the second column of that table, a prescribed officer:—

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.