Statutory Rules
1990 No. 631
Pig Research and
Development Corporation
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 Command
John
Kerin
Minister of State for
Primary Industries
and
Energy
Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Pig Research and Development Corporation Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations
commence on 2 July 1990.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears:
“Corporation” means the Pig Research
and Development Corporation specified in regulation 4;
(S.R.
58/90)—Cat. No. 14/14.2.1990
“pig industry” means the industry
concerned with:
(a) the
production, processing, distribution and sale of pork; and
(b) the
production, distribution and sale of pork products;
“pork” means pig meat;
“the Act” means the Primary Industries and Energy Research and
Development Act 1989.
Establishment of the Pig
Corporation
4. An R & D
Corporation to be known as the Pig Research and Development Corporation is
declared to be established in respect of the pig industry.
Levy attached to the Corporation
5. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Act, the levy
imposed by paragraph 6 (1) (a) of the Pig
Slaughter Levy Act 1971 is attached to the Corporation.
(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 pig industry is the primary industry to which the levy
relates.
Gross value of production of pork
6. (1) The Minister is to determine the gross value of the production
of pork for a financial year (in this regulation called “relevant year”) by calculating that value in accordance with the
formula:
where:
A is the value of pork
produced in the financial year ending 1 year before the start of the relevant
year; and
B is the value of pork
produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant year; and
C is the estimated value
of pork to be produced in the relevant year.
(2) A reference to the
value of pork 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 gross value of pork produced; or
(b)
the estimated gross value of pork to be produced;
by
the pig industry in that financial year.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette on 27 February 1990.
Printed
by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer