Biosecurity Amendment (Time for Payment of Charge for Low Value Goods) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Biosecurity Amendment (Time for Payment of Charge for Low Value Goods) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 26 September 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Julie Collins

Julie Collins

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................ 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Biosecurity Regulation 2016 2

1Name

This instrument is the Biosecurity Amendment (Time for Payment of Charge for Low Value Goods) Regulations 2024.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	Immediately after the commencement of the Biosecurity Amendment (Extending Cost Recovery to Low Value Goods) Regulations 2024.	1 October 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Biosecurity Act 2015.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Biosecurity Regulation 2016

1

Subsection 108(4B)

Repeal the subsection.

2

Subsection 108(5)

Omit “A charge”, substitute “Subject to subsection (6), a charge”.

3

Subsection 108(5)

Omit “or (4B)”.

4

At the end of section 108

Add:

1. (6)

   For:

   1. (a)

      a charge in relation to a biosecurity matter prescribed by item 2A of the table in subsection 9(1) of the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (Customs) Regulation 2016; or

   2. (b)

      a charge in relation to a biosecurity matter prescribed by item 2A of the table in subsection 9(1) of the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Regulation 2016;

the invoice referred to in paragraph (5)(a) of this section must not be issued, or the demand referred to in paragraph (5)(b) of this section must not be made, until after the end of the period of 3 months beginning on 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October in which the self‑assessed clearance declaration was given.