STATUTORY RULES.

1963. No. 6.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WINE GRAPES CHARGES ACT 1929-1957.*

WHEREAS is is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section three of the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1957 that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine:

And whereas it is enacted by sub-section (2.) of that section that, subject to a lower rate of charge being prescribed by the Regulations, the rate of charge—

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

(b) in respect of dried grapes, shall be Two pounds five shillings per ton,

of grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine:

And whereas it is enacted by section five of that Act that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Wine Board constituted by the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929-1961, make regulations for prescribing lower rates of the charge imposed on grapes intended for use in the manufacture of wine:

And whereas the Australian Wine Board has reported to the Minister that the rate of charge to be imposed on grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine should be Thirteen shillings per ton in respect of fresh grapes and One pound nineteen shillings per ton in respect of dried grapes, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1957:

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 Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1957.

Dated this thirtieth day of January, 1963.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) C.F. ADERMANN

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 30th January, 1963.

11705/62.—Price 3d.        9/16.1.1963.

Amendment of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations.†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of February, 1963.

2. Regulation 4 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations is repealed and the following; regulation inserted in its stead:—

Rate of charge.

“4. For the purposes of the Act, the rate of charge imposed on all grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine is—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes—Thirteen shillings per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes—One pound nineteen shillings per ton.”.

† Statutory Rules 1938, No. 26, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 11 and 54; 1941, No. 101; 1942, Nos. 96 and 305; 1945, Nos. 104 and 171; 1946, No. 88; 1952, No. 2; 1954, No. 122; 1959, Nos. 1 and 2; 1961, No. 3; and 1962, No. 8.

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