Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 2332

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, 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 29 August 2001

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

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 Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 October 2001.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

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

Schedule 1Amendments

  

(regulation 3)

[1]Reader’s guide, clause 5A

omit

on wool,

insert

on wool and farmed prawns,

[2]Reader’s guide, clause 9A

omit

on kangaroos and on wool,

insert

on kangaroos, wool and farmed prawns,

[3]Schedule 14, after Part 1

insert

Part 2Farmed prawns

2.1Definition for this Part

 In this Part:

farmed prawns has the meaning given by clause 3.1 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Regulations.

2.2Imposition of charge

• (1)

  For clause 2 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, charge is imposed on farmed prawns if, after the commencement of this Part, the prawns are exported from Australia.

(2)

Charge is not imposed by this Part on farmed prawns on which levy under Part 3 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Regulations has previously been imposed or paid.

2.3Rate of charge

 For clause 5 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is 3.64 cents per kilogram of farmed prawns, weighed before any part of the prawns is removed, exported from Australia.

2.4Who pays the charge

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

Note As to who is theproducer in relation to export charge on farmed prawns, see paragraph 3.4 (b) of Schedule 37 to the Collection Regulations.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 131, as amended by 2000 Nos. 236 and 344; 2001 Nos. 5, 94, 108, 112 and 216.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette