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(c) The fixed levy (a) and the variable levy (b) shall both apply in respect of 80 percent only of the maximum number of laying birds which any person is authorised by an entitlement licence to keep during the periods in respect of which the levies are payable:

(d) The total amount of fixed and variable levies imposed in the year ending on 30 June 1975 shall not exceed $2 in relation to each bird authorised to be kept under an entitlement licence.

PAYMENT OF LEVY

(e) Levies assessed and payable as above shall be debited in the books of the Authority to the accounts of the entitlement holders concerned.

(f) Debits for the fixed levy to each account during the 2 years ending 30 June 1976 shall be totalled; amounts of chick levy charged to the entitlement holder concerned pursuant to regulation 76 of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953 for the same period shall also be totalled and, if the total charged for chick levy equals or exceeds the total charged for fixed levy, no fixed levy shall be due; the amount by which the total of fixed levy exceeds the total of chick levy shall be paid to the Authority by the entitlement holder not later than 30 September 1976; the same procedure shall apply in respect of the 2 years ending 30 June 1978 and every second year thereafter; provided that on the revocation of an entitlement licence any balance of fixed levy payable by the holder shall be determined as at the date of revocation in accordance with the above procedure and such balance shall be paid to the Authority not later than 3 months thereafter.

(g) Debits for the variable levy charged to each account during the period from 1 July 1974 to 30 June 1975 shall be totalled; amounts of “floor downpayments” deducted from the proceeds of eggs consigned during that period by the entitlement holder concerned to a licensed distributor for sale shall also be totalled and, if the total of such “floor downpayments” equals or exceeds the total charged for variable levy, no variable levy shall be due; the amount by which the total of variable levy exceeds the total of “floor downpayments” shall be paid to the Authority by the entitlement holder not later than 30 September 1975; provided that on the revocation of an entitlement licence any balance of variable levy payable by the holder shall be determined as at the date of the revocation in accordance with the above procedure and such balance shall be paid to the Authority not later than 3 months thereafter.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of May 1975.

M. R. K. COWDREY, General Manager,
Egg Marketing Authority.

Poultry Entitlement Levy—Determination of Nature and Incidence (No. 1141 Ag. 20210)

PURSUANT to regulation 75B of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953, as inserted by regulation 15 of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953, Amendment No. 11, the Egg Marketing Authority gives notice of the nature and incidence of the entitlement levy which it has determined, as follows:

ASSESSMENT OF LEVY

(a) A fixed levy of 30c per annum in respect of each laying bird authorised to be kept pursuant to an entitlement licence during the year ended on 30 June 1976 and during each succeeding year; provided that in respect of each laying bird authorised to be kept for any period of less than any such year the levy shall be reduced in proportion to that period:

(b) A variable levy, commencing on 1 July 1975, in respect of each laying bird authorised to be kept pursuant to an entitlement licence during any statistical period when levies on eggs (“floor downpayments”) approved under regulation 65 (2) of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953, are being deducted from the proceeds of eggs consigned to licensed distributors for sale; the rate of variable levy for any statistical period being 16 times the rate of “floor down-payment” per dozen eggs for that period divided by 12; for this purpose “statistical period” means any one of 12 periods, each of either 4 or 5 weeks, into which each year is divided by the Authority for statistical and accounting purposes; provided that in respect of each laying bird authorised to be kept during part of any statistical period the rate of variable levy shall be reduced in proportion to that part:

(c) The fixed levy (a) shall apply in respect of 80 percent only of the maximum number of laying birds which any person is authorised by an entitlement licence to keep during the periods in respect of which the levies are payable:

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(d) The variable levy shall apply in respect of 100 percent of the maximum number of laying birds which any person is authorised by an entitlement licence to keep during the periods in respect of which the levies are payable.

(e) The manner of assessing levies payable set out in (a), (b), (c), and (d) above shall have continuing effect until any variation thereof shall have been determined and approved in the manner prescribed by regulation 75B (2), provided that the total amount of fixed and variable levies imposed in any year ending on 30 June shall not exceed $2 in relation to each bird authorised to be kept under an entitlement licence.

PAYMENT OF LEVY

(f) Levies assessed and payable as above shall be debited in the books of the Authority to the accounts of the entitlement holders concerned.

(g) Debits for the fixed levy charged to each account during the 2 years ending 30 June 1976 shall be totalled; amounts of chick levy charged to the entitlement holder concerned pursuant to regulation 76 of the Egg Marketing Authority Regulations 1953 for the same period shall also be totalled, and if the total charged for chick levy equals or exceeds the total charged for fixed levy no fixed levy shall be due; the amount by which the total of fixed levy exceeds the total of chick levy shall be paid to the Authority by the entitlement holder not later than 30 September 1976; the same procedure shall apply in respect of the 2 years ending 30 June in 1978 and every second year thereafter; provided that on the revocation of an entitlement licence any balance of fixed levy payable by the holder shall be determined as at the date of revocation in accordance with the above procedure and such balance shall be paid to the Authority not later than 3 months thereafter.

(h) Debits for the variable levy charged to each account during the period from 1 July 1975 to 30 June 1976 shall be totalled; amounts of “floor downpayments” deducted from the proceeds of eggs consigned during that period by the entitlement holder concerned to a licensed distributor for sale shall also be totalled and, if the total of such “floor downpayments” equals or exceeds the total charged for variable levy, no variable levy shall be due; the amount by which the total of variable levy exceeds the total of “floor downpayments” shall be paid to the Authority by the entitlement holder not later than 30 September 1976; the same procedure shall apply in respect of the year ending 30 June in 1977 and every year thereafter; provided that on the revocation of an entitlement licence any balance of variable levy payable by the holder shall be determined as at the date of the revocation in accordance with the above procedure and such balance shall be paid to the Authority not later than 3 months thereafter.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of May 1975.

M. R. K. COWDREY, General Manager,
Egg Marketing Authority.

Special Order Made by Thames County Council Altering Riding Boundaries

PURSUANT to section 88 of the Counties Act 1956, the Secretary for Local Government hereby publishes the following Special Order made by the Thames County Council.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of May 1975.

P. J. O’DEA, Secretary for Local Government.
I.A. 103/137/126)

SPECIAL ORDER

IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 23 of the Counties Act 1956, the Thames County Council resolves by way of Special Order as follows:

1. The boundaries of the Tairua and Whangamata Ridings shall be altered by excluding from the Tairua Riding and including in the Whangamata Riding the area described in the First Schedule hereto.

2. The alteration hereby made shall take effect on the 1st day of April 1975.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Area to be Excluded from Tairua Riding and Included in Whangamata Riding

ALL that area in the South Auckland Land District, Thames County, containing 38 hectares, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the left bank of the Moananuanu River in line with the southern boundary of Lot 2, D.P. S. 18372, situated in Block XVI, Tairua Survey District, and proceeding generally north-westerly to and along that boundary and the south-western boundaries of the said Lot 2