STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 305.

REGULATION UNDER THE WINE GRAPES CHARGES ACT 1929-1941.*

WHEREAS by section five of the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1941 it is enacted that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Wine Board constituted under the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929-1936, make regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine:

And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that the rates of charge to be imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine and delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine should be the rates prescribed by the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations, as amended by the regulation hereunder, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1941:

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 regulation under the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1941.

Dated this eighth day of July, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce.

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Amendment of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations.†

After regulation 3 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Rate of charge.

“4. The rate of the charge imposed and to be levied and paid by the owner of any winery or distillery under section 3 of the Act on grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes, shall be Two shillings and sixpence per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes, shall be Seven shillings and sixpence per ton.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1938, No. 26, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 11 and 54; 1941, No. 101; and 1942, No. 96

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

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