Dried Vine Fruits Levy
No. 131 of 1971
An Act to impose a Levy on certain
Dried Vine Fruits.
[Assented to 16 December 1971]
BE it enacted
by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine
Fruits Levy Act 1971.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Collection Act to be read as one
with this Act.
3. The Levy Collection Act shall, for the
purposes of the interpretation of that Act, be read as one with this Act.
Interpretation.
4.—(1.) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, “levy” means
an amount of the levy imposed by this Act.
(2.) Section 4 of the Dried Vine Fruits
Stabilization Act 1971 shall, for the purposes of the interpretation of
this Act, be read as one with this Act
Imposition of levy.
5.—(1.) Where—
(a)the
amount per ton that constitutes the average return for a season in respect of a
kind of dried fruit exceeds by more than Ten dollars the amount per ton that
constitutes the base price for that season in respect of that kind of dried
fruit; and
(b)the
number of tons of dried fruit of that kind that is received for packing during
that season exceeds the minimum quantity with respect to that kind of dried
fruit,
levy is imposed on dried fruit of that kind that is received
for packing during that season.
(2.) In
this Act, “the minimum quantity” means—
(a)
in relation to currants—eight thousand tons;
(b)in
relation to sultanas—sixty thousand tons; and
(c)
in relation to raisins—six thousand tons.
Rate of the levy.
6.—(1.) Subject to the
next succeeding sub-section, the rate of the levy imposed by this Act on dried
fruit received for packing during a season is an amount per ton equal to an
amount that is less by Ten dollars than the amount by which the amount per ton
that constitutes the average return for that season in respect of the kind of
dried fruit in which that dried fruit is included exceeds the amount per ton
that constitutes the base price for that season in respect of that kind of
dried fruit.
(2.) The
rate of the levy imposed by this Act shall not exceed Twenty dollars per ton.
By whom levy payable.
7.—(1.) Where any dried
fruit received for packing has been purchased by the packer or received by him
under a contract or arrangement that permits or requires him to sell, or
arrange for the sale of, the packed dried fruit derived from the dried fruit
received for packing and to receive the net proceeds of the sale, the packer is
liable to pay levy on the dried fruit received for packing.
(2.) Where the last preceding sub-section does not
apply, the grower of the dried fruit received for packing is liable to pay levy
on that dried fruit.
Imposition of provisional levy.
8.