Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2004 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2004 No. 1032

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 27 May 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. 3).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 July 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, after Part 23

insert

Part 24Persimmons

24.1Persimmons are chargeable horticultural products

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

Note 1 Clause 24.2 is reserved for future use.

Note 2 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: see subclause 2 (2) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act.

24.3Rate 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 persimmon.

24.4Rate of charge — research and development component

For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge is 3.75 cents per kilogram of persimmon.

24.5What is the eligible industry body for persimmons

For subclauses 5 (6), (7) and (9) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the eligible industry body for persimmons is the Persimmon Industry Association Incorporated (ABN 68 001 472 008).

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 Nos. 1 and 41.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette