Beef Production Levy Amendment Act 1997 (Cth)

Beef Production Levy Amendment Act 1997

No. 208, 1997

Beef Production Levy Amendment Act 1997

No. 208, 1997

An Act to amend the Beef Production Levy Act 1990, and for related purposes

Contents

Beef Production Levy Amendment Act 1997

No. 208, 1997

An Act to amend the Beef Production Levy Act 1990, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 December 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Beef Production Levy Amendment Act 1997.

2Commencement

This Act commences at the commencement of Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Beef Production Levy Act 1990

1. 1

   Subsection 4(1) (definition of Australian Meat and Live‑stock Corporation)

   Repeal the definition.

2

Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

marketing body has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997.

3

Subsection 4(1) (definition of Meat Industry Council)

Repeal the definition.

4

Subsection 4(1) (definition of Meat Research Corporation)

Repeal the definition

5

Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

research body has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997.

6

After section 5

Insert:

5ANo amount of levy payable in certain cases

1. (1)

   The regulations may provide that no amount of levy is payable by owners of cattle under this Act.

2. (2)

   Despite anything else in this Act, if a regulation of the kind referred to in subsection (1) is made, an amount of levy is not payable on the slaughter of cattle in respect of any period while the regulation is in force.

7

Paragraphs 6(1)(a), (b) and (c)

Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:

1. (a)

   the prescribed amount (not exceeding 6 cents), for the purpose of payment to the marketing body;

2. (b)

   the prescribed amount (not exceeding 1 cent), for the purpose of payment to the research body.

8

Subsections 8(2), (3) and (4)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

1. (2)

   The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a body to be the body whose recommendations about the amount to be prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(a) or 6(1)(b) are to be taken into consideration under subsection (3).

2. (3)

   If a declaration is in force under subsection (2), the Governor‑General’s power to make regulations for the purposes of the paragraph to which the declaration relates is exercisable only on the advice of the Executive Council, given after the Council has taken into consideration any recommendations about the amount made to the Minister by the body specified in the declaration in relation to that paragraph.

[Minister's second reading speech made in the¾

House of Representatives on 1 October 1997

Senate on 29 October 1997]

(157/97)