Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001 (Cth)

Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001

No. 70, 2001

Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001

No. 70, 2001

An Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

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Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001

No. 70, 2001

An Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 June 2001]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3Validation of levy

1. (1)

   Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237) is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would have been if Schedule 15 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999 as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into force on 31 December 1999.

2. (2)

   Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 238) is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would have been if Schedule 22 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991 as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into force on 31 December 1999.

3. (3)

   Subsection 48(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (which, among other matters, invalidates regulations imposing retrospective liabilities on certain persons) is taken not to have applied to Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237) or to Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 238).

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[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 March 2001

Senate on 18 June 2001]