STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 53.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES

ACT 1947.*

WHEREAS by section 5 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 it is provided, inter alia, that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Egg Board, make regulations prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any eggs exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas the Australian Egg Board has made a report to the Minister that the rates of the charges imposed on eggs exported from the Commonwealth should be such rates as are specified in the Table to regulation 4 of the Egg Export Charges Regulations as amended by these Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Egg Export Charges Act 1947:

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 Egg Export Charges Act 1947.

Dated this  tenth

day of  August , 1955.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Signature of George McLeay For and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Amendment of the Egg Export Charges Regulations.†

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation, on the first day of July, 1955.

Rate of charges

2. Regulation 4 of the Egg Export Charges Regulations is amended, by omitting from the table the words and figures—

"Dried whole egg .........................................

1.2 per pound"

 and inserting in their stead the words and figures—

"Dried whole egg .........................................

1 per pound".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1955

† Statutory Rules 1948, No. 17, as amended by Statutory Rules 1949. No. 26; 1950, Nos. 31;1951,No. 62;1953;No.12; and 1954,No. 85

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