STATUTORY RULES

1966 No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CANNED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1926-1966.*

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1966 it is enacted that, amongst other things, a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all canned fruits to which that Act applies which are exported from the Commonwealth and the rate of charge in respect of any canned fruits is the rate set out in the Schedule to that Act that applies to the canned fruits or such lower prescribed rate, if any, as applies to the canned fruits:

AND WHEREAS by section 4 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Act 1926-1966 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 Marketing Act 1963-1966 make regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on any kind of canned fruits exported from the Commonwealth:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Canned Fruits Board has reported to the Minister that on and after the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, the rates of charge in respect of canned fruits exported from the Commonwealth should be the rates as set out in the Schedule to the Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations as amended by the following regulations:

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 1926-1966.

Dated this sixteenth day of December, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

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Amendments of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations. †

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1967.

2. Regulation 5 of the Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Rates of charge.

“5.—(1.) For the purposes of the Act, the prescribed rates are—

(a) in respect of canned fruits (other than canned pineapples, canned tropical fruit salad and canned pineapple juice)—the rates set out in Part I. of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) in respect of canned pineapples and canned tropical fruit salad—the rates set out in Part II. of the Schedule to these Regulations; and

(c) in respect of canned pineapple juice—the rates set out in Part III. of the Schedule to these Regulations.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                             1966.

† Statutory Rules 1957, No. 73, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, No. 54.

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 “(2.) In the last preceding sub-regulation and in the Schedule to these Regulations, ‘canned tropical fruit salad’ means canned mixed fruits having a fruit content not less than fifty-five percentum of which consists of pineapple.

“(3.) A reference in the Schedule to these Regulations to the weight of the pack shall, in relation to any canned fruits, be read as a reference to the weight of the contents of the container in which the canned fruits are enclosed.”.

The Schedule.

3. The Canned Fruits Export Charges Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:—

THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 5.

RATES OF CHARGE

Part I.

Rates of Charge in respect of Canned Fruits other than canned pineapples, canned tropical fruit salad and canned pineapple juice

Part II.

Rates of Charge in respect of canned pineapples and canned tropical fruit salad

Part III.

Rates of Charge in respect of canned pineapple juice

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