Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1) (Cth)

Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3432

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Act 1985.

Dated 13 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Contents

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1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence, or are taken to have commenced, as follows:

• (a)

  on 1 July 2000 — regulations 1 to 3 and Schedule 1;

• (b)

  on gazettal — the remainder.

3Amendment of Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Regulations 1985

 Schedules 1 and 2 amend the Export Inspection and Meat (Establishment Registration Charges) Regulations 1985.

Schedule 1Amendments taken to have commenced on 1 July 2000

  

(regulation 3)

[1]Schedule 1, after Part 2

insert

Part 2AEstablishments dealing with game meat

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Establishment	Rate per year ($)
1	An establishment that exported 100 tonnes or more of game meat in the financial year before the charge period and that engaged in: (a) slaughtering or killing animals, or dressing carcases, from which game meat is obtained; or (b) processing or packing of game meat	5 000
2	An establishment that exported less than 100 tonnes of game meat in the financial year before the charge period and that engaged in: (a) slaughtering or killing of animals, or dressing carcases, from which game meat is obtained; or (b) processing or packaging of game meat	1 500

[2]Schedule 1, Part 3, item 9

omit

Schedule 2Amendments commencing on gazettal

(regulation 3)

[1]Regulation 3, definition of AQA arrangement

omit

[2]Regulation 3, after definition of dressing

insert

emerging establishment means an abattoir from which meat intended for human consumption, other than meat from bovine or ovine animals, is obtained.

[3]Regulation 3, after definition of prescribed month

insert

QAAmeans a Quality Assurance Arrangement approved under Part 32 of the Export Meat Orders 1985.

[4]Subregulation 7 (4), definition of annual rate

substitute

annual rate means:

• (a)

  the rate specified in item 12 of Schedule 2; or

• (b)

  if the establishment is an emerging establishment, the rate specified in item 11 of Schedule 2.

[5]Schedule 2, item 7

omit

an AQA arrangement

insert

a QAA

[6]Schedule 2, item 11

substitute

11 An emerging establishment that slaughtered less than 750 tonnes of meat or meat products for export in the financial year before the charge period $5 000

[7]Schedule 2, item 12

omit

750 tonnes or more (but not more than 10,000 tonnes)

insert

10 000 tonnes or less

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1985 No. 362, as amended by 1986 No. 252; 1987 Nos. 195 and 250; 1988 Nos. 141 and 241; 1989 Nos. 257 and 405; 1990 Nos. 303 and 420; 1991 No. 175; 1992 No. 252; 1993 No. 377; 1994 Nos. 64 and 457; 1995 Nos. 41 and 169; 1996 Nos. 17 (as amended by 1996 No. 82), 81, 82, 110 and 193; 1997 Nos. 183, 190, 265, 360 and 407; 1998 No. 75; 1999 No. 148.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 2000.