1Egg Export Control (Licences) Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

Horizontal line1954. No. 72.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE EGG EXPORT CONTROL ACT 1947-1954.*

WHEREAS by section fourteen of the Egg Export Control Act 1947-1954 it is enacted that, for the purpose of enabling the Australian Egg Board effectively to control the export and distribution after export of Australian eggs, the Governor-General may make regulations prohibiting the export from the Commonwealth of any eggs except by persons who hold licences issued by the Minister or by a person thereto authorized in writing by the Minister, and subject to such conditions and restrictions as are prescribed after recommendation to the Minister by the Board :

And whereas the Australian Egg Board has recommended to the Minister that the conditions and restrictions applying to the export from the Commonwealth of eggs should be the conditions and restrictions set forth in the following Regulations :

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 Control Act 1947-1954.

Dated this fourth

day of June , 1954.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister's signature

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Horizontal lineEGG EXPORT CONTROL (LICENCES) REGULATIONS.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Egg Export Control (Licences) Regulations.

Repeal.

2. The Egg Export Control (Licences) Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1948, No. 18) are repealed.

Interpretation.

3.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“ authorized person ”, in relation to the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty or function under these Regulations, means a person authorized for that purpose by the Board ;

Horizontal line* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

2259.—Price 8d. 9/21.5.1954.

“ authorized price ”, in relation to a sale of eggs, means the minimum price for that sale calculated in accordance with the determination under regulation 9 of these Regulations that is applicable to the sale, or, where that price is expressed in a currency other than that in which the sale is made, the equivalent price in the currency in which the sale is made according to the rate of exchange applicable at the time of the sale ;