Statutory Rules 1984 No. 3441

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Eggs (Export Inspection Charge) Collection Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, hereby make the following Regulations under the Eggs (Export Inspection Charge) Collection Act 1982.

Dated 27 November 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Eggs (Export Inspection Charge) Collection Regulations.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from, the definition of “exporter” in sub-regulation (1) “who has furnished an export notice” and substituting “to whom a prescribed export permit has been granted”.

3. Regulations 4 and 5 of the Principal Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is substituted:

Prescribed export permit

“4. For the purposes of the definition of ‘prescribed export permit’ in sub-section 3 (1) of the Act, an export permit in force under regulation 22 of the Export Control (General) Regulations in relation to the export of eggs is declared to be a prescribed export permit.”.

Returns

4. Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting all the words from and including “in a State” to and including “in any particular” and substituting “and in relation to which a prescribed export permit has been granted to the exporter in any”;

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (b) “to which the return relates”; and

(c) by omitting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c) in respect of each prescribed export permit granted to the exporter during the relevant month, being a prescribed export permit relating to eggs inspected for export—

(i) the serial or other identifying number (if any) of that permit;

(ii) the date on which that permit was granted; and

(iii) the place at which the eggs to which that permit relates were inspected;”.

5. Regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Records to be kept

“10. (1) An exporter of eggs shall, in respect of each prescribed export permit granted to him in relation to eggs, keep, or cause to be kept, proper records showing—

(a) the serial or other identifying number (if any) of that permit;

(b) the date on which that permit was granted;

(c) the place at which the eggs to which that permit relates were inspected;

(d) if that permit relates to eggs in shell—the number (expressed in thousand dozen) of eggs in respect of which that permit was granted; and

(e) if that permit relates to eggs other than eggs in shell—the number of tonnes of eggs in respect of which that permit was granted.

“(2) Any records kept under sub-regulation (1) in respect of a prescribed export permit shall be retained by the exporter to whom that permit was granted for the period of 3 years commencing on the date on which that permit was granted.

Penalty: $200.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 November 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 383.