Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 4) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 4)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1122

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 (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

Dated 30 May 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WILSON TUCKEY

Minister for Forestry and Conservation

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 4).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

Schedule 1 amends the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedules 7 and 8

substitute

Schedule 7Forest industries (export)

(regulation 5)

1Definition for Schedule 7

 In this Schedule:

export charge means charge imposed under Schedule 7 to the Customs Charges Act.

2Exemption from export charge

 For subclause 3 (2) of Schedule 7 to the Customs Charges Act, export charge is not payable by a person for a levy year if the total amount of:

• (a)

  export charge; and

• (b)

  charge imposed under Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act; and

• (c)

  levy imposed under Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act;

that the person is liable to pay for the year is less than $330.

Note 1   Clause 3 of Schedule 7 to the Customs Charges Act provides that the rate of charge imposed by that Schedule is equal to the rate of levy (if any) that would have been imposed under Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act if the logs had been delivered to a mill in Australia.

Note 2   Clause 2 of Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Regulations prescribes rates of levy for classes of logs.

Schedule 8Forest industries (import)

(regulation 5)

1Definition for Schedule 8

import charge means charge imposed under Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act.

2Prescribed forest products

 For paragraph (b) of the definition of forest products in clause 1 of Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act, the following products, being products described in Chapter 44 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995, are forest products:

• (a)

  wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared;

• (b)

  wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm;

• (c)

  veneer sheets and sheets for plywood, (whether or not spliced) and other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm;

• (d)

  wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, v-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed;

• (e)

  particle board and similar board of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances;

• (f)

  fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances;

• (g)

  plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood.

3Exemption from import charge

 For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act, import charge is not payable by a person for a levy year if the total amount of:

• (a)

  import charge; and

• (b)

  charge imposed under Schedule 7 to the Customs Charges Act; and

• (c)

  levy imposed under Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act;

that the person is liable to pay for the year is less than $330.

Note 1   Subclause 3 (1) of Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act provides that the rate of charge imposed by that Schedule is equal to the rate of levy (if any) that would have been imposed under Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act if the logs had been delivered to a mill in Australia.

Note 2   Clause 2 of Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Regulations prescribes rates of levy for classes of logs.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 131, as amended by 2000 Nos. 236 and 344; 2001 Nos. 5, 94 and 108.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette