STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 83
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE BUTTER FAT LEVY ACT 1965.*
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965.
Dated this 25th
day of June, 1965.
HENRY ABEL SMITH
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(sgd.) C. F. ADERMANN
Minister of State for Primary Industry.
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BUTTER FAT LEVY REGULATIONS
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Butter Fat Levy Regulations.
Interpretation.
2.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“authorized agent” means a person appointed to be an authorized agent in pursuance of regulation 5 of these Regulations;
“dairy produce” means dairy produce in the manufacture of which butter fat produced in Australia is used;
“return” means a return required to be furnished in pursuance of regulation 4 of these Regulations.
(2.) In these Regulations, a reference to a Form by number shall be read as a reference to a Form so numbered in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Manner and place of payment of levy.
3. Payment of an amount of levy in respect of butter fat used in a State shall be made to the Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry in the capital city of the State.
Returns.
4. A manufacturer who, during any month of the year, in a State, manufactures dairy produce shall on or before the twenty-eighth day of the next succeeding month, furnish, in respect of each factory at which he manufactures dairy produce, a return and declaration in accordance with Form 1 to the Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry in the capital city of the State.
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1965.
6938/65.—Price 9d. 9/16.6.1965.
Authorized agents.
5.—(1.) A manufacturer of dairy produce may appoint a person to be his authorized agent for the purpose of executing, from time to time, on his behalf a declaration referred to in the last preceding regulation.
(2.) The appointment of an authorized agent by a manufacturer of dairy produce in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation—
(a) shall be in accordance with Form 2; and
(b) shall be lodged with the Collector of Public Moneys, Department of Primary Industry in the capital city of the State in which the dairy produce is manufactured.
(3.) Where a declaration referred to in the last preceding regulation has been executed by an authorized agent, the manufacturer on whose behalf the declaration has been executed is subject to the same liabilities and penalties as if he had executed the declaration.
Offences.
6. A person shall not—
(a) fail or neglect duly to furnish a return that he is required under these Regulations to furnish; or
(b) furnish, in pursuance of these Regulations, a return or declaration that is false or misleading in a material particular.
Penalty: Fifty pounds,
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THE SCHEDULE
Form 1
Regulation 4
Commonwealth of Australia
Butter Fat Levy Act 1965
RETURN OF BUTTER FAT USED
| Name of Manufacturer.................................. | | |
| Address of Manufacturer............................... | | |
| Name of Factory............................................ | | |
| Address of Factory........................................ | | |
| Month in relation to which the return is furnished.................................................... | , 19 | |
| Weight of butter fat produced in Australia and used, during the month referred to, in the manufacture, at the above-mentioned factory, of dairy produce within the meaning of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965................. | cwt. | |
| Total rate of levy........................................... | per cwt. | |
| Total amount of levy payable........................ | | |
Declaration
(a) Insert full name and address of person declaring.
I, (a) hereby declare that—
(b) Insert “manufacturer” or “authorized agent of the manufacturer”, whichever is applicable.
1. I am the (b) of the butter fat specified in the foregoing return.
(c) Insert full name of manufacturer.
2. (c) did not, during the month of the year ended on the day of ,
19 , use in the manufacture of any dairy produce within the meaning of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965, at the factory specified in the foregoing return, any butter fat other than the butter fat specified in the foregoing return.
Declared at the day of
(d) Signature of person declaring. (e) Signature, address and occupation of witness. | |
,19 .
(d)
(e)
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Form 2
Regulation 5
Commonwealth of Australia
Butter Fat Levy Act 1965
APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT
(a) Insert full name and address of manufacturer.
(b) Insert full name, address and occupation of authorized agent.
I (or as the case may be), (a) , hereby appoint (or appoints) (b), a specimen of whose signature appears hereunder, to be my (or our or its) authorized agent for the purpose of executing on my (or our or its) behalf the declaration set out in Form 1 in the Schedule to the Butter Fat Levy Regulations.
Dated at this
day of , 19 .
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| (c) Signatures of manufacturer. (d) Signature of authorized agent. (e) Signature, address and occupation of witness. | |
(c)
(d)
(e)
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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.