Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 1062

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 May 2002

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 2002 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2002.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

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

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 10, paragraph 17.1 (c)

substitute

• (c)

  hard onions (being bulbs of the species Allium cepa); or

[2]Schedule 10, clause 17.1, note 2

omit

Division 2

insert

Division 3

[3]Schedule 10, clause 17.1, after note 2

insert

Note 3   For charge on Agaricus mushrooms and hard onions, see Parts 18 and 19 of this Schedule.

[4]Schedule 10, after Part 17

insert

Part 18Agaricus mushrooms

Note    Part 18 will deal with Agaricus mushrooms. At present, there is no charge imposed on Agaricus mushrooms.

Part 19Hard onions

19.1Hard onions are chargeable horticultural products

 For the definition of chargeable horticultural products in clause 1 of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, hard onions are chargeable horticultural products.

Note 1   Hard onion is defined in clause 19.2 of Schedule 22 to the Collection Regulations.

Note 2   Clauses 19.2 and 19.3 intentionally not used.

19.4Rate of charge — research and development component

 For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is $1.60 per tonne of hard onions.

Note 1   Subclause 2 (2) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act provides that charge is not imposed on chargeable horticultural products if the producer has paid levy imposed by Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, or by the repealed Horticultural Levy Act 1987, on those products.

Note 2   For the rate of NRS levy on hard onions, see Schedule 4 to the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998, Schedule 9 to the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998 and Division 3 of Part 11 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998.

19.5What is the eligible industry body for hard onions

 For subclauses 5 (6), (7) and (9) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the eligible industry body for hard onions is the Australian Onion Industry Association Inc (ABN 26 558 335 296).

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 2000 No. 131, as amended by 2000 Nos. 236 and 344; 2001 Nos. 5, 94, 108, 112, 216 and 233.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette