STATUTORY RULES

1971 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE BUTTER FAT LEVY ACT 1965-1966.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965-1966 that the amount of levy in respect of any butter fat shall consist of the sum of such amounts as are from time to time prescribed for the purposes of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of that sub-section:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (3.) of that section that the amount prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1.) of that section shall not exceed Twenty-four cents:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (2.) of section 10 of that Act that, before making regulations under that section prescribing an amount for the purposes of section 6 of that Act, the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the amount made to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Dairy Produce Board constituted under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924-1966:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Dairy Produce Board has made a recommendation to the Minister of State for Primary Industry with respect to the amount to be prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965-1966:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and having taken into consideration the recommendation made to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Dairy Produce Board with respect to the amount to be prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965-1966, hereby make the following Regulations under the Butter Fat Levy Act 1965-1966.

Dated this fourteenth day of September, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD) IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

Amendment of the Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations†

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of October, 1971.

Prescribed amounts of levy on butter fat.

2. Regulation 3 of the Butter Fat Levy (Amounts of Levy) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section 6 of the Act, the amount for each hundredweight of butter fat is 24 cents.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                                        1971.

† Statutory Rules 1965, No. 84, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 9 and 102; 1967, No. 85; and 1970, Nos. 75 and 108.

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