STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 130.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE RABBIT SKINS EXPORT CHARGES ACT 1940-1942.*

Whereas by section 4 of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Act 1940-1942 it is provided that a charge is imposed and shall be levied and paid on all rabbit skins exported from the Commonwealth after a date to be fixed by Proclamation and that the rate of charge shall be as prescribed after report to the Minister by the Australian Rabbit Skins Board constituted under the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Appropriation Act 1940 but shall not in any case exceed Two shillings and sixpence for each pound of rabbit skins exported:

And whereas the said Australian Rabbit Skins Board has reported to the Minister that the rate of charges imposed on seventeenth day of May, 1943, should be at the rates prescribed by the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulation, as amended by the Regulations, as amended by the Regulations hereunder:

Now therefore I, the Deputy of the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Act 1940-1942.

Dated this seventeenth day of May, 1943.

Deputy of the Governor-General

By His  Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

AMENDMENT OF THE RABBIT SKINS EXPORT CHARGES REGULATION.†

ns.

1. Regulation 2 of the Rabbit Skins Export Charges Regulations is amended by omitting the word “ninepence” and inserting in its stead the words “One shilling and sixpence”.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the seventeenth day of May, 1943.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                                                                   May, 1943.

† Statutory Rules 1940, No. 105, as amended by Statutory Rules 1940, No. 149; 1941, No. 107; and 1942, Nos. 285 and 432.