APPLE AND PEAR STABILIZATION EXPORT DUTY COLLECTION AMENDMENT ACT 1976

No. 46 of 1976

An Act to amend the Apple and Pear Stabilization Export Duty Collection Act 1971-1973.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Apple and Pear Stabilization Export Duty Collection Amendment Act 1976.

(2) The Apple and Pear Stabilization Export Duty Collection Act 1971-1973 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Apple and Pear Stabilization Export Duty Collection Act 1971-1976.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Provisional export duty.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-section (3) the following sub-section:—

“(3a) In the application of sub-section (3) in relation to the season that commenced on 1 October 1975, the reference in that sub-section to the exportation of fruit on consignment shall be construed as a reference—

(a) in the case of the exportation of apples—to exportation on consignment to a country in Europe (including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); or

(b) in the case of the exportation of pears—to exportation on consignment to a country in Europe (including the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), the United States of America or Canada. and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (13) the words “reputed bushel” and substituting the words “reputed box”.

Formal amendments.

4. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

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SCHEDULE Section 4

FORMAL AMENDMENTS

The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “of this Act” and “of this section” (wherever occurring):—

Sections 4(3), (5) and (13), 10(1)(b) and (2)(b)(ii), 12(1), 13(1) and 18(4) and (5).