STATUTORY RULES.

1915 No. 67.

REGULATION UNDER THE EXCISE ACT 1901.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulation under the Excise Act 1901 to come into operation forthwith.

Statutory Rules 1914, No. 118, made on the 13th day of August, 1914, being Provisional Regulation under the said Act, is hereby cancelled.

Dated this third day of May, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

TOBACCO REGULATIONS.

Regulation 72 of the Excise Regulations (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 345) is hereby amended to read as follows:—

“Scale for Calculating Quantity of Tobacco, Etc., Made in a Factory.

72. (1) The following scale is prescribed for the purpose of calculating the full quantity of plug tobacco, cut tobacco, cigars, or cigarettes produced in a factory:—

Scale.

For every 100 lbs. of leaf tobacco, made into plug tobacco, 110 lbs. of plug tobacco shall be deemed to have been produced.

For every 100 lbs. of leaf tobacco, made into cut tobacco, for pipe smoking without being first made into plug tobacco, 106 lbs. of cut tobacco shall be deemed to have been produced.

For every 100 lbs. of leaf tobacco, made into tobacco cut fine for cigarettes, 103 lbs. of tobacco cut fine for cigarettes shall be deemed to have been produced.

For every 100 lbs. of leaf tobacco, made into cigars, 90 lbs. of cigars shall be deemed to have been produced.

For every 100 lbs. of leaf tobacco, made into cigarettes, 104 lbs. of cigarettes shall be deemed to have been produced.

For every 100 lbs. of tobacco, cut fine for cigarettes, or cut plug tobacco, received into a factory and made into cigarettes, 101 lbs. of cigarettes shall be deemed to have been produced.

(2) The term ‘100 lbs. of leaf tobacco’ means 100 lbs. net weight, exclusive of stems and refuse.”

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