Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Forest Growers) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Forest Growers) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 05 May 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Barnaby Joyce

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1Name

This is the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Forest Growers) Regulation 2016.

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 July 2016.	1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

1

Subclause 8.6(2) of Schedule 27

Repeal the subclause, substitute:

1. (2)

   For clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of EPPR levy on a log is:

   1. (a)

      if the log is produced from an exotic softwood tree of the genus Pinus sp.—5 cents per cubic metre of the log; and

   2. (b)

      in any other case—nil.