Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No 1) (Cth)

Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1312

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 Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.

Dated 13 June 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

JUDITH TROETH

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture,

Fisheries and Forestry

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

3Amendment of Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations

Schedule 1 amends the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Regulation 1

substitute

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1993.

[2]Regulation 3, definition of Corporation

substitute

Corporation means the Corporation declared by regulation 4 to be established.

[3]Regulation 3, definition of logs

substitute

leviable logs means logs on which a levy mentioned in subregulation 5 (1) is imposed.

logs has the same meaning as in Schedule 10 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.

[4]Regulation 4

omit

An

insert

For section 8 of the Act, an

[5]Subregulation 5 (1)

substitute

• (1)

  For paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Act, the following levies are attached to the Corporation:

  • (a)

    levy imposed by clause 2 of Schedule 10 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999;

  • (b)

    charge imposed by clause 2 of Schedule 7 to the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999;

  • (c)

    charge imposed by clause 2 of Schedule 8 to the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

[6]Subregulations 5 (2) and (3)

omit

the purposes of

[7]Regulation 6

substitute

6Gross value of production

• (1)

  For subsection 32 (2) of the Act, the Minister must determine the gross value of production, for a financial year (the relevant financial year), of logs produced in Australia by the forest and wood products industry and in respect of which a levy has been attached to the Corporation, by using:

where:

A is the estimated value of the leviable logs to be produced in the relevant financial year.

B is the value of the leviable logs produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant financial year (the previous financial year).

C is the value of the leviable logs produced in the financial year immediately before the previous financial year.

• (2)

  In subregulation (1), a reference to the value of leviable logs produced or to be produced in Australia in a financial year is a reference to:

  • (a)

    the gross value of leviable logs produced in Australia in that year by the forest and wood products industry as shown in the official statistics supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics; or

  • (b)

    the estimated gross value of leviable logs produced or to be produced in Australia in that year by the forest and wood products industry as shown in the official statistics supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1993 No. 209, as amended by 1994 No. 203.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette