Statutory Rules
1990 No. 611
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Egg Industry
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 Egg Industry Research and Development Council Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations
commence on 2 July 1990.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears:
“Council” means the Egg Industry
Research and Development Council specified in regulation 4;
“egg” means the egg of a
domesticated fowl;
“egg industry” means the industry
concerned with the production and processing of eggs and the distribution and
sale of eggs and processed egg products;
“Fund” means the Egg Industry R
& D Fund referred to in regulation 5;
“processed egg product” means a product in which
eggs are the major ingredient;
“the Act” means the Primary Industries and Energy Research and
Development Act 1989.
Establishment of the Egg
Industry Council
4. An R & D Council to
be known as the Egg Industry Research and Development Council is declared to be
established in respect of the egg industry.
Egg Industry Fund
5. For the purposes of
section 107 of the Act, the R & D Fund established in respect of the Egg
Industry R & D Council is to be known as the Egg Industry 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 (a) of the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988 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 egg industry is the primary industry to
which the levy relates.
Gross value of
production of eggs
7. (1) The Minister is to
determine the gross value of the production of eggs for a financial year (in
this regulation called “relevant year”)by calculating that value in
accordance with the formula:
where:
A is the estimated value
of eggs produced in the financial year ending 1 year before the start of the
relevant year; and
B is the estimated value
of eggs produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant year;
and
C is the estimated value
of eggs to be produced in the relevant year.
(2) A reference to the value
of eggs 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 estimated gross value of eggs produced; or
(b)
the estimated gross value of eggs to be produced;
by
the egg industry in that financial year.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette