Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1) (Cth)

Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2010 No. 216

I, MARIE BASHIR, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990.

Dated 19 July 2010

MARIE BASHIR

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

TONY BURKE

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Amendment Regulations 2010 (No. 1).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

Amendment of Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Regulations 2000

(1)Schedule 1 amends the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Regulations 2000.

(2)The amendments made by Schedule 1 apply as follows:

(a)in relation to an application for a quota of high quality beef to be exported to the European Union — on and after 1 May 2011;

(b)in any other case — on and after the commencement of these Regulations.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 3

substitute

Definitions

In these Regulations:

Act means the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990.

quota document means a quota document issued under section 6 of the Act in relation to a kind of goods.

quota entitlement means the quantity of a kind of goods that a quota holder has a right to export in the period specified in the holder’s quota document for the goods.

Note See subsection 3 (1) of the Act for the meaning of goods.

quota holder means a licensee who holds a quota granted under section 6 of the Act in relation to a kind of goods.

Note Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions in the Act have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997 — see subsection 3 (2) of the Act.

[2] Regulation 4, heading

substitute

Quota fee

[3] Subregulation 4 (1)

substitute

(1)For paragraph 6 (2) (a) of the Act, the fee payable by a licensee for allocation of a quota is 0.2 of a cent for each kilogram of quota entitlement forming the quota.

[4] Subregulation 4 (2)

omit

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia

insert

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Note

All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See