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EXPORT INSPECTION CHARGES (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 115 of 1985 - SECT 7

Imposition of charge
7. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (1) "sub-section (2)" and substituting

"this section";

   (b)  by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-sections: "(1A)
        Sub-section (1) does not apply to a prescribed commodity in respect of
        which an export permit is granted if-

   (a)  the commodity is certified on or after the day on which regulations
        made for the purposes of sub-section 6 (1) of the Export  Inspection
        (Service Charge) Act 1985 specifying the commodity came into force;
        and

   (b)  in a case where the commodity is inspected by an authorised
        officer-the certification is based wholly or partly on an inspection
        that commenced on or after that day.

"(1B) For the purposes of sub-section (1A), a prescribed commodity shall be
taken to be certified when an authorised officer certifies on the notice of
intention to export the prescribed commodity that the authorised officer is
staisfied, or has reasonable grounds to believe, that the export control
orders that apply to the commodity have been complied with.

"(1C) For the purposes of sub-section (1A), where a notice of intention to
export prescribed commodities is given and an authorised officer, either
before or after the notice is given, inspects some of those commodities for
the purpose of determining whether to grant an export permit authorising the
export from Australia of all those commodities, the authorised officer shall
be taken to have inspected all of those commodities for that purpose.

"(1D) Sub-section (1) does not apply to a prescribed commodity in respect of
which an export permit is granted if-

   (a)  another export permit has previously been granted in respect of the
        commodity, whether or not that other permit was also granted in
        respect of another commodity;

   (b)  that other export permit has been accidentally lost or accidentally
        destroyed; and

   (c)  the first-mentioned export permit was granted by way of replacement of
        that other export permit.

"(1E) Sub-section (1) does not apply to-

   (a)  meat;

   (b)  meat products;

   (c)  edible game offal;

   (d)  game meat;

   (e)  game meat products;

   (f)  poultry meat;

   (g)  poultry meat products;

   (h)  rabbit meat; or

   (j)  rabbit meat products."; and

   (c)  by adding at the end the following sub-section:

"(3) A reference in this section to a notice of intention to export prescribed
commodities is a reference to a notice of the kind referred to in section 6 of
the Export Control Act 1982.". 


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