Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Citrus and Farmed Prawns) Regulations 2019 (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Citrus and Farmed Prawns) Regulations 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 28 November 2019

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Bridget McKenzie

Minister for Agriculture

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Citrus and Farmed Prawns) Regulations 2019.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 January 2020.	1 January 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1Citrus

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

1

Subclause 7.7(2) of Schedule 15

Repeal the subclause, substitute:

1. (2)

   For clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rates of EPPR levy on citrus are as follows:

   1. (a)

      for oranges in bulk—$1.05 per tonne of oranges;

   2. (b)

      for oranges not in bulk—2.1 cents per box;

   3. (c)

      for other citrus in bulk—$1.05 per tonne of citrus;

   4. (d)

      for other citrus not in bulk—2.1 cents per box.

Part 2Farmed prawns

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

2

Before clause 3.1 of Schedule 27

Insert:

Division 3.1—Definitions for this Part

3

Clause 3.1 of Schedule 27

Omit “In these Regulations”, substitute “In this Part”.

4

Before clause 3.2 of Schedule 27

Insert:

Division 3.2—Product levy

5

Clause 3.3 of Schedule 27

After “the rate of levy”, insert “imposed by this Division on farmed prawns”.

6

Clause 3.4 of Schedule 27

Omit “imposed by this Part”, substitute “imposed by this Division”.

7

Clause 3.4 of Schedule 27 (note)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note: For the meaning of producer, see subclause 3.4(1) of Schedule 37 to the Collection Regulations and paragraph (b) of the definition of producerin subsection 4(1) of the Collection Act.

8

At the end of Part 3 of Schedule 27

Add:

Division 3.3—Special purpose levies

3.5White spot disease repayment levy

Imposition of levy

1. (1)

   For the purposes of clause 2 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, levy is imposed on farmed prawns on which levy is imposed by Division 3.2 of this Schedule.

Rate of levy

1. (2)

   For the purposes of clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of levy imposed by this Division on farmed prawns is 3.01 cents per kilogram of farmed prawns, weighed before any part of the prawns is removed.

Who pays the levy

1. (3)

   For the purposes of clause 11 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, levy imposed by this Division on farmed prawns is payable by the producer of the prawns.

   Note: For the meaning of producer, see subclause 3.4(1) of Schedule 37 to the Collection Regulations and paragraph (b) of the definition of producerin subsection 4(1) of the Collection Act.