DRIED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES.

No. 6 of 1927.

An Act to amend the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924.

[Assented to 8th April, 1927.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1927.

(2.) The Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924–1927.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have commenced on the same date as the Principal Act.

Charge on export of dried fruit.

3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(2.) The rate of the charge shall be one-eighth of a penny for each pound of dried fruits exported, or, in the case of any of the three kinds of dried fruits to which this Act applies, such lower rate as is prescribed by the regulations.”.

4. After section three of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Exemption from charges.

“3a.—(1.) The Governor-General may, from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, after report to the Minister by the Dried Fruits Control Board constituted under the Dried Fruits Export Control Act 1924, exempt dried currants, dried sultanas or dried lexias from the charges imposed by this Act.

“(2.) Any such exemption may be unconditional, or subject to such conditions as the Governor-General thinks fit, and shall apply in respect of the period (if any) specified in the order of exemption, or, in the absence of the specification of any such period, until such date as the Governor-General may fix by order published in the Gazette.”.

Regulations.

5. Section four of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “dried fruits” and inserting in their stead the words “dried currants, dried sultanas or dried lexias”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the words “on or after such date as is specified in the regulations, not being earlier than the first day of March One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven”.