STATUTORY RULES

1971 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE WINE GRAPES CHARGES ACT 1929-1969.*

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1.) of section 3 of the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1969 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 being prescribed by the Regulations, the rate of the charge—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes, shall be Two dollars fifty cents per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes, shall be Seven dollars fifty cents per ton, of grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by section 5 of that Act that the Governor-General may, after a report to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Wine Board constituted under the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929-1966, 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 of State for Primary Industry that the rates of the charge to be imposed on grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine should be One dollar eighty cents per ton in respect of fresh grapes and Five dollars forty cents per ton in respect of dried grapes, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929-1969:

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 1929-1969.

Dated this twenty-eight day of January, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

Amendment of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of February, 1971.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971.

† 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; 1962, No. 8; 1963, No. 6; 1967, No. 6; and 1969, No. 99.

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 Regulation 4 of the Wine Grapes Charges Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Rate of charge.

“4. The rate of the charge imposed by section 3 of the Act on all grapes delivered to a winery or distillery for use in the manufacture of wine is—

(a) in respect of fresh grapes—One dollar eighty cents per ton; and

(b) in respect of dried grapes—Five dollars forty cents per ton.”.

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