COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS 1983 NO. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS 1983 NO. 25 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Citation 2. Commencement 3. Interpretation 4. Manner of payment of levy 5. Returns 6. Authorized Agent 7. Execution of documents by a company, co-operative society, board or authority 8. Record to be kept 9. Form of warrant SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 2 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 1 Citation 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Cotton Research Regulations. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 2 Commencement 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 March 1983. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 3 Interpretation 3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears- "authorized agent" means a person appointed by a processor under regulation 6 to be an authorized agent; "the Act" means the Cotton Research Act 1982; "the Secretary" means the person for the time being occupying, or acting in, the office the holder of which is, under the Public Service Act 1922, the Permanent Head of the Department. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 4 Manner of payment of levy 4. The payment of levy and other moneys payable to the Commonwealth under the Act in respect of leviable cotton shall be made to the Collector of Public Moneys at the office of the Department in Canberra. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 5 Returns 5. (1) A processor of leviable cotton shall, in respect of each month (in this regulation referred to as the "relevant month") in which leviable cotton is produced by the processor, furnish to the Secretary at the office of the Department in Canberra a return containing the following information with respect to leviable cotton so produced: (a) the full name and address of the processor; (b) the relevant month; (c) the quantity of leviable cotton produced in the relevant month. (2) A return referred to in sub-regulation (1)- (a) shall be signed by the processor or the authorized agent of the processor; and (b) shall be lodged within 28 days after the last day of the month that is the relevant month for the purposes of that return. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 6 Authorized Agent 6. (1) A processor who is required to furnish a return under regulation 5 may, by instrument in writing, appoint a person to be an authorized agent for the purpose of signing such returns. (2) An instrument referred to in sub-regulation (1)- (a) shall be in accordance with the form in Schedule 1; and (b) shall be lodged at the office of the Department in Canberra. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 7 Execution of documents by a company, co-operative society, board or authority 7. Where a return referred to in regulation 5 or an instrument referred to in regulation 6 is to be signed by a processor and the processor is a company, co-operative society, board or authority, the return or instrument may be signed by a director or the secretary of the company, co-operative society, board or authority, as the case may be. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 8 Record to be kept 8. (1) A processor of leviable cotton shall keep, or cause to be kept, a record in respect of leviable cotton produced by the processor in each month. (2) A record kept under sub-regulation (1) shall be retained by the processor for a period of 3 years from the date on which leviable cotton to which that record relates was so produced. Penalty: $200. 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - REG 9 Form of warrant 9. A warrant granted under section 26 of the Act shall be in accordance with the form in Schedule 2. ---------------- 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 Regulation 6 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Cotton Research Act 1982 APPOINTMENT OF AUTHORIZED AGENT To the Secretary to the Department of (name of relevant Department) I (full name and address of signatory and, where the person required to furnish the return is not a natural person, the designation of the signatory) *acting for and on behalf of (name of company, co-operative society, board or authority), hereby appoint (full name, address and occupation of authorized agent), a specimen of whose signature appears below, to be *my authorized agent/*the authorized agent of (name of company, co-operative society, board or authority) for the purposes of signing a return prepared for the purposes of regulation 5 of the Cotton Research Regulations. Dated 19 . ................................................ (Signature) Dated 19 . ................................................ (Signature of authorized agent) *Omit if inapplicable ---------------- 1983 No. 25 COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS - SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE 2 Regulation 9 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Cotton Research Act 1982 WARRANT UNDER REGON 26 To: (full name) , an authorized person for the purposes of section 26 of the Cotton Research Act 1982. WHEREAS, on an application by you under sub-section 26 (2) of that Act in relation to premises at , I, (full name), a Justice of the Peace, am satisfied, by information on oath (or affirmation)- (a) that there is reasonable ground for believing that- * those premises are premises on which leviable cotton is produced, stored or processed * there are on those premises books, documents or papers relating to financial dealings between growers and processors of leviable cotton * there are on those premises books, documents or papers relating to the production, storage, processing, sale, purchase or export of leviable cotton ; and (b) that the issue of a warrant under sub-section 26 (3) of that Act in relation to those premises is reasonably required for the purposes of that Act: YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED, with such assistance as you think necessary, to enter the premises at , if necessary by force, during the hours of (or at any time), for the purpose of exercising the powers of an authorized person under sub-section 26 (5) of the Cotton Research Act 1982. THIS WARRANT ceases to have effect after (insert date). Dated 19 . Justice of the Peace * Omit if inapplicable - NOTES 1983 No. 25*1* COTTON RESEARCH REGULATIONS *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 February 1983.