Domestic Meat Premises Charge Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 16 1

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Domestic Meat Premises Charge Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Domestic Meat Premises Charge Act 1993.

Dated 24 January 1996.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

BOB COLLINS

Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on 1 February 1996.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Domestic Meat Premises Charge Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 5 (Charge for a financial year)

3.1   Omit “that begins on or after 1 July 1994”.

4.   Regulation 6 (Charge for the 1993/1994 financial year)

4.1   Omit the regulation.

5.   Schedule 2

5.1   Omit the Schedule, substitute:

SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 5

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Kind of killing or processing plant	Column 3 Amount of charge
1	Knackery	$310
2	Animal food processing plant	$310
3	Meat processing plant	$1,240
4	Slaughterhouse	$1,325
5	Abattoir (except an abattoir to which item 6 applies) that receives inspection services in the financial year:
(a) if the number of inspection hours received in the previous financial year is 1,000 or fewer	$1,325
(b) if the number of inspection hours received in the previous financial year is more than 1,000 and not more than 5,000	$6,190
Column 1 Item	Column 2 Kind of killing or processing plant	Column 3 Amount of charge
(c) if the number of inspection hours received in the previous financial year is more than 5,000	$22,284
6	Abattoir having a Quality Assurance Agreement approved under Part 7 of the Meat Inspection (General) Orders for all operations at the abattoir:
(a) if the number of inspection hours received in the previous financial year is 5,000 or fewer	$1,325
(b) if the number of inspection hours received in the previous financial year is more than 5,000	$6,190

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 January 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1993 No. 375 as amended by 1994 No. 66.