6Owner’s licence

6. An owner’s licence shall be in accordance with Form B, and shall be issued—

(a) for the period commencing with the date on which the licence is issued and ending on the thirty‑first day of December of the year in which the licence is issued; and

(b) upon the following terms and conditions—

(i) That the licensee shall, within seven days after the end of each calendar months furnish to the prescribed authority which issued his licence a return in accordance with Form C.

(ii) That the licensee shall export from Australia during the period for which his licence has been issued, and during such further period as a prescribed authority considers necessary, such percentage of the dried fruits produced in Australia during any specified year which come into the possession or custody of the licensee, as is from time to time fixed by the Minister, upon the report of a prescribed authority, and notified in the Gazette:

Provided that, in the calculation of the percentage of dried fruits to be exported by the licensee, there shall be excepted from the dried fruits coming into the possession or custody of the licensee any dried fruits which have been taken into account in applying the percentage in respect of any other licensee.

(iii) That the licensee shall, whenever so required by a prescribed authority, give to that prescribed authority, within such time as that prescribed authority fixes, security for compliance by the licensee with the terms and conditions of his licence.

(iv) That the licensee shall number consecutively each consignment of dried fruits intended for delivery to any person for carriage into or through another State to a place in Australia beyond the

State in which the delivery is made, and shall mark in letters and figures not less than half an inch in height in a prominent position on one end of each package containing any such dried fruits—

(a) the number of the consignment;

(b) the initial letter of the name, or of the first word in the name, of the State in which the delivery is made; and

(c) the number of his licence and the year on the last day of which the licence expires.

(v) That the licensee shall, if so required by a prescribed authority, furnish or produce to that prescribed authority, within such period as that prescribed authority fixes, his licence, and such documents relating to any dried fruits in his possession or custody as that prescribed authority specifies.

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