Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Potatoes, Vegetables and Ginger) Regulations 2018 (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Potatoes, Vegetables and Ginger) Regulations 2018

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 regulations.

Dated 30 August 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

David Littleproud

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Potatoes, Vegetables and Ginger) Regulations 2018.

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 October 2018.	1 October 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 14.7(2) of Schedule 15

Omit “nil”, substitute “10 cents per tonne”.

2

Subclause 17.9(2) of Schedule 15

Omit “nil”, substitute “0.01% of the amount paid for the vegetables at the first point of sale”.

3

After subclause 17.9(2) of Schedule 15

Insert:

1. (2A)

   However, if the vegetables are first sold after being processed, the rate of EPPR levy is 0.01% of the expected price of the vegetables.

2. (2B)

   The expected price of the vegetables is the amount that would have been paid for the vegetables calculated in accordance with subclauses 17.5(3) and (4) of this Schedule.

4

Before clause 9.1 of Schedule 27

Insert:

Division 9.1—Definitions for this Part

5

After clause 9.1 of Schedule 27

Insert:

Division 9.2—Product levy

6

Clauses 9.3 and 9.4 of Schedule 27

After “levy”, insert “imposed by clause 9.2”.

7

At the end of Part 9 of Schedule 27

Add:

Division 9.3—Special purpose levies

9.5EPPR levy

1. (1)

   For clause 2 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, EPPR levy is imposed on ginger on which levy is imposed by clause 9.2 of this Schedule.

2. (2)

   For clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of EPPR levy on ginger is nil.

3. (3)

   For clause 11 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, EPPR levy on ginger is payable by the producer of the ginger.

Note: In relation to EPPR levy, see the Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002.