STATUTORY RULES.
1949. No. 26.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES
ACT 1947.*
WHEREAS by section 5 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 it is provided, inter alia, that the Governor-General may, after report to the Minister by the Australian Egg Board constituted in pursuance of the Egg Export Control Act 1947-1948, make regulations prescribing lower rates of the charges imposed on any eggs exported from the Commonwealth:
And whereas the Australian Egg Board has made a report to the Minister that the rates of the charges imposed on eggs exported from the Commonwealth should be as prescribed by these Regulations, being rates lower than the rates imposed by the Egg Export Charges Act 1947:
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 Egg Export Charges Act 1947.
Dated this eighteenth day of May, 1949.
W. J. McKELL
Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
R. T. POLLARD
Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.
AMENDMENT OF THE EGG EXPORT CHARGES REGULATIONS.
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of June, 1949.
2. After regulation 3 of the Egg Export Charges 'Regulations the following regulation is added:—
Rates of charges.
" 4. The charges imposed and to be levied and paid under section 3 of the Egg Export Charges Act 1947 shall be imposed, levied and paid at the rates specified in the following Table:—
| Kind of Eggs. | Rate of Charge in pence. |
| Eggs in shell................................................................. | 11.25 per 30 dozen eggs |
| Liquid whole egg......................................................... | .45 per pound |
| Liquid egg white.......................................................... | .45 per pound |
| Liquid egg yolk ........................................................... | .45 per pound |
| Dried whole egg .......................................................... | 1.35 per pound |
| Sugared dried egg ........................................................ .. | .9 per pound |
| Dried egg white ........................................................ .. | 2.625 per pound |
* Notified in Commonwealth Gazette on 10th May, 1949.
Statutory Rules 1948, No.17
By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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