STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No.

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-six, 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 twenty-third day of November, 1955.

W. J. slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Amendment of the Dried Fruits Export Charges Regulations.†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1956.

2. Regulation 5 of the Dried Fruits Export Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Rates of change.

“ 5. For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Act, on or after the first day of March, 1956—

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

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

† Statutory Rules 1954, No. 127.

5384/55.—Price 3d. 9/17.10.1955.

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

(c) the rate of the charge in respect of dried lexias shall be Four pence halfpenny for each hundredweight of dried lexias exported.”.

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