Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Fodder) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Fodder) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Barnaby Joyce

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1Name

This is the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Fodder) Regulation 2016.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	11 May 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

1

At the end of Schedule 14

Add:

Part 5—Fodder

5.1Definitions for this Part

In this Part:

fodder means fodder products of the following kinds that are produced in Australia for use for animal feed:

1. (a)

   hay, including oaten hay, lucerne hay and wheaten hay;

2. (b)

   straw, including cereal straw;

but does not include chaff, extruded fodder products or silage.

5.2Imposition of charge

For subclause 2(1) of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, charge is imposed on fodder if, on or after 1 July 2016, the fodder is exported from Australia.

Note: The charge is attached to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation—see section 5 of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989 and regulation 44 of the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Regulations 2000.

5.3Rate of charge—research and development component

For clause 5 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is 50 cents per tonne of fodder.

5.4Who pays the charge

For clause 10 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, charge imposed by this Part on fodder is payable by the producer of the fodder.

5.5Exemption from charge

For clause 11 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, fodder is exempt from charge in a quarter if the total quantity of fodder on which the producer would be liable to pay charge for the quarter is less than 250 tonnes.