Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 2) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 412

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 23 March 2004

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 2004 (No. 2).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 April 2004.

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, clause 4.5

omit

the Australian Avocado Growers’ Federation Inc.

insert

Avocados Australia Limited (ABN 95 810 689 086).

[2]Schedule 10, clauses 15.3 and 15.4

substitute

15.3Rates of charge — marketing component

For subclause 3 (3) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the following rates of charge are prescribed:

1. (a)

   for stone fruit packed in standard trays — 2.25 cents per standard tray;

2. (b)

   for stone fruit packed in standard boxes — 4.5 cents per standard box;

3. (c)

   for bulk stone fruit of more than 10 kilograms — $4.50 per tonne of stone fruit.

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horticultural products if the producer has paid levy imposed by Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, or by the repealed Horticultural Levy Act 1987, on those products.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 Bulk stone fruit, standard box and standard tray are defined for stone fruit in clause 15.2 of Part 15 of Schedule 22 to the Collection Regulations.

15.4Rates of charge — research and development component

For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the following rates of charge are prescribed:

1. (a)

   for stone fruit packed in standard trays — 2.75 cents per standard tray;

2. (b)

   for stone fruit packed in standard boxes — 5.5 cents per standard box;

3. (c)

   for bulk stone fruit of more than 10 kilograms — $5.50 per tonne of stone fruit.

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 Bulk stone fruit, standard box and standard tray are defined for stone fruit in clause 15.2 of Part 15 of Schedule 22 to the Collection Regulations.

[3]Schedule 10, clause 15.5

omit

the Summerfruit Australia Inc (ABN 95 389 475 289).

insert

Summerfruit Australia Limited (ABN 51 105 962 196).

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, 327 and 332; 2004 No. 1.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette