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APPLE AND PEAR STABILIZATION EXPORT DUTY AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 45 of 1976 - SECT 4

4. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting the words ''reputed bushel'' (wherever occurring) and
substituting the words ''reputed box'';

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2) the words ''the next succeeding
sub-section'' and substituting the words ''sub-sections (2A) and (3)''; and

   (c)  by inserting after sub-section (2) the following sub-section:-

''(2A) In relation to apples picked during the season that commenced on 1
October 1975, sub-section (2) does not apply but, subject to sub-section (3),
the rate of export duty in respect of apples picked during that season is an
amount per reputed box, or part of a reputed box, in each container of the
apples equal to-

   (a)  where the excess in relation to those apples is not more than 50
        cents-one-quarter of the excess;

   (b)  where the excess in relation to those apples is more than 50 cents but
        not more than $1-the sum of 12.5 cents and one-half of the amount by
        which the excess exceeds 50 cents;

   (c)  where the excess in relation to those apples is more than $1 but not
        more than $1.50-the sum of 37.5 cents and three-quarters of the amount
        by which the excess exceeds $1; or

   (d)  in any other case-

        (i)    the sum of 75 cents and the amount by which the excess in
               relation to those apples exceeds $1.50; or

        (ii)   $2,

whichever is the less.''.
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