STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. 127.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DRIED FRUITS EXPORT

CHARGES ACT 1924-1929.*

WHEREAS by section 4 of the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924-1929 it is provided that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Dried Fruits Control Board constituted under the Dried Fruits Export Control Act 1924-1953, make Regulations prescribing a lower rate of the charge imposed on dried currants, dried sultanas or dried lexias exported from the Commonwealth 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:

And whereas the Dried Fruits Control Board has reported to the Minister that the rates of the charge imposed on dried currants, dried sultanas and dried lexias exported from the Commonwealth on or after the first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, should be as prescribed by the following Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924-1929:

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 Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924-1929.

Dated this fifteenth day of December , 1954.

W.J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Dried Fruits Export Charges Regulations.

Citation.

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

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1955.

Repeal.

3. The Dried Fruits Export Charges Regulations (comprising Statutory Rules 1938, No. 23; Statutory Rules 1939, No. 17; Statutory Rules 1940, No. 41; Statutory Rules 1941, No. 45; Statutory Rules 1942, No. 75; Statutory Rules 1943, No. 16; Statutory Rules 1947, No. 115; and Statutory Rules 1952, Nos. 42 and 84) are repealed.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,1954.

5229.—Price 3d. 9/17.11.1954.

Definition.

4. In these Regulations, "the Act" means the Dried Fruits Export Charges Act 1924-1929.

Rates of charge.

5. For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 3 of the Act, on or after the first day of March, 1955—

(a) the rate of the charge in respect of dried currants shall be Three pence for each hundredweight of dried currants exported;

(b) the rate of the charge in respect of dried sultanas shall be Three pence halfpenny for each hundredweight of dried sultanas exported; and

(c) the rate of the charge in respect of dried lexias shall be Three pence for each hundredweight of dried lexias 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:—

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