Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 11) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 11)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 3322

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, 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 18 December 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

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 2003 (No. 11).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 February 2004.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

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

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 10, after Part 22

insert

Part 23Lychees

23.1Lychees are chargeable horticultural products

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

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 on those products.

Note 2 Clause 23.2 intentionally not used.

23.3Rate of charge — marketing component

For subclause 3 (3) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is 2.5 cents per kilogram of lychees.

23.4Rate of charge — research and development component

For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is 5.5 cents per kilogram of lychees.

23.5What is the eligible industry body for lychees

For subclauses 5 (6), (7) and (9) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the eligible industry body for lychees is the Australian Lychee Growers Association (ABN 45 591 381 594).

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; 2002 Nos. 106, 154, 191, 286, 289 and 293; 2003 Nos. 2, 10, 13, 27, 79, 138, 141, 220, 303 and 327.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette