STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 63.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1938-1957.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section four of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957 that charges are imposed and shall be levied and paid on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of that section that, subject to a lower rate being prescribed by the regulations, the rate of the charges so imposed shall be Two pence for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported:

And whereas it is enacted by section six of that Act that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Apple and Pear Board constituted under the Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938-1953, make regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth:

And whereas it is enacted by section three of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1957 that the rates of charges under the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957 on apples and pears exported before a date to be fixed by the regulations under that Act, after report to the Minister by the Australian Apple and Pear Board, as the date on which that section shall cease to operate shall be One Penny for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported:

And whereas the Board has reported to the Minister that the rates of charges to be imposed on all apples and pears exported from the Commonwealth on or after the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight should be the rates specified in the following Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957:

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 Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957.

Dated this 26th day of October, 1957.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) WILLIAM McMAHON

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th November, 1957.

5314/57[D1].—Price 3d. 9/17.9.1957.

APPLE AND PEAR EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1958.

Repeal.

3. The Apple and Pear Export Charges Regulations, being Statutory Rules 1956, No. 79, are repealed.

Definition.

4. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, “t[D2]he Act”[D3] means the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1938-1957.

Date on which section 3 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1957 ceases to operate.

5. Section 3 of the Apple and Pear Export Charges Act 1957 shall cease to operate on the first day of January, 1958.

Rates of charge.

6. For the purposes of the Act, the prescribed rate of charge imposed on apples or pears exported from the Commonwealth is the rate of One and one-quarter pence for each case, two half cases or three trays of apples or pears exported.

Officer to whom moneys to be paid.

7. For the purposes of sub-section (3.) of section 4 of the Act, the officer holding, occupying or performing the duties of any of the following offices is a prescribed officer:—

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Sydney;

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Melbourne.[D4]

Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry, Brisbane;

Collector of Customs, Adelaide;

Collector of Customs, Perth; and

Collector of Customs, Hobart.

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.[D5]