Statutory Rules
1990 No. 621
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Chicken Meat
Research and Development Council Regulations
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of
the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and
Development Act 1989.
Dated
19 February 1990.
BILL HAYDEN
Governor-General
By
His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN KERIN
Minister of State for
Primary Industries and Energy
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Citation
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Chicken Meat Research and Development Council Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations
commence on 2 July 1990.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears:
“chicken” means a chicken:
(a)
hatched from the egg of a domesticated fowl; and
(b)
to be raised as a meat chicken;
“chicken meat industry” means the industry
concerned with the production and processing of chicken meat and the
distribution and sale of chicken meat and chicken meat products;
“Council” means the Chicken Meat
Research and Development Council specified in regulation 4;
“Fund” means the Chicken Meat R&D Fund
referred to in regulation 5;
“the Act” means the Primary Industries and Energy Research and
Development Act 1989.
Establishment of the
Chicken Meat Council
4. An R & D Council to
be known as the Chicken Meat Research and Development Council is declared to be
established in respect of the chicken meat industry.
Chicken Meat Fund
5. For the purposes of
section 107 of the Act, the R&D Fund established in respect of the Chicken
Meat R&D Council is to be known as the Chicken Meat R&D Fund.
Levy attached to the
Fund
6. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Act, the levy
mentioned in paragraph 7 (1) (a) of the Meat
Chicken Levy Act 1969 is attached to the Fund.
(2) For the purposes of
paragraph 5 (3) (a) of the Act, the whole of the levy is the research component
of the levy.
(3) For the purposes of
paragraph 5 (3) (b) of the Act, the chicken meat industry is the primary
industry to which the levy relates.
Gross value of
production of chicken meat
7. (1) The Minister is to determine the gross value of the production
of chicken meat for a financial year (in this regulation called “relevant year”) by calculating that value in accordance with the formula:
where:
A is the value of chicken
meat produced in the financial year ending 1 year before the start of the
relevant year; and
B is the value of chicken
meat produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant year; and
C is the estimated value
of chicken meat to be produced in the relevant year.
(2) A reference to the value
of chicken meat produced or to be produced in a financial year is a reference
to the production figure supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and
Resource Economics that shows:
(a)
the gross value of chicken meat produced; or
(b)
the estimated gross value of chicken meat to be produced; by the chicken meat
industry in that financial year.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
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