Primary Industries (Customs) Charges (Vegetable) Regulations 1999 (Cth)

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges (Vegetable) Regulations 1999

Statutory Rules 1999 No. 305

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, 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 8 December 1999.

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Judith Troeth

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture,

Fisheries and Forestry

for the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges (Vegetable) Regulations 1999

Statutory Rules 1999 No. 3051

made under the

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  

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1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges (Vegetable) Regulations 1999.

2Commencement

 These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 1 July 1999.

3Definition

 In these Regulations:

Customs Charges Act means the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

4Application

 These Regulations apply to vegetables, but do not apply to:

• (a)

  asparagus; or

• (b)

  garlic; or

• (c)

  hard onions; or

• (d)

  herbs (other than fresh culinary shallots and parsley); or

• (e)

  melons; or

• (f)

  potatoes (other than sweet potatoes); or

• (g)

  seed sprouts; or

• (h)

  tomatoes; or

(i)

vegetables of a kind for which a rate of charge for subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act is applicable, other than the rates of charge fixed by these Regulations.

Note For potatoes, see the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Potato) Regulations and Div 2 of Pt 11 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998.

5Vegetables are chargeable horticultural products

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

6Rate of charge — Horticultural Research and Development Corporation

 For subclause 3 (5) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of charge for vegetables is 0.5% of the free on board value of the vegetables immediately before export.

Note   Subclause 2 (2) of Sch 10 to the Customs Charges Act provides that charge is not imposed on chargeable horticultural products if a producer has paid levy under the Excise Levies Act on those products.

7What is the eligible industry body?

 For subclauses 5 (6), (7) and (9) of Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act, the eligible industry body for vegetables is the Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers’ Federation Inc — Vegetable Group.

Note

1. Made by the Governor-General on 8 December 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette