DAIRY PRODUCE LEVY.

No. 40 of 1964.

An Act to amend the Dairy Produce Levy Act 1958.

[Assented to 28th May, 1964.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Dairy Produce Levy Act 1964.

(2.) The Dairy Produce Levy Act 1958 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Dairy Produce Levy Act 1958-1964.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

Definition.

3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “dairy produce” and inserting in its stead the following definitions:—

“‘butteroil’ does not include butteroil manufactured from, or by the treatment of, butter;

“‘dairy produce’ means butter, butteroil, butter powder, cheese and ghee;

“‘ghee’ means clarified fat of cow’s milk manufactured otherwise than from, or by the treatment of, butter;”.

Rates of levy on butter and butter powder.

4. Section six of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “butter” (wherever occurring), the words “or butter powder”.

5. After section seven of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Rates of levy on butteroil and ghee.

“7a.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the amount of levy in respect of any butteroil or ghee shall consist of the sum of—

(a) such amount for each pound of the butteroil or ghee as is from time to time prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph; and

(b) such amount for each pound of the butteroil or ghee as is from time to time prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.

“(2.) The amounts prescribed for the purposes of the last preceding sub-section shall be such that the sum of those amounts does not exceed fifteen sixty-fourths of a penny.”.

Regulations.

6. Section twelve of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “or seven” and inserting in their stead the words “, seven or seven a”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “or paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section seven” and inserting in their stead the words “paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section seven or paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section seven a”.