Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 5) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 5)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1132

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 (Excise) Levies Act 1999.

Dated 30 May 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WILSON TUCKEY

Minister for Forestry and Conservation

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 5).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

Schedule 1 amends the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 10

substitute

Schedule 10Forest industries products

(regulation 5)

1Rates of levy

 For subclause 3 (1) of Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of levy for a class of logs is the rate mentioned in the first item in the following table that applies to the class of logs.

Item	Class of logs	Description of logs	Rate of levy (cents/m3)
1	Softwood sawlog	Softwood logs, other than cypress sawlogs, that are intended and suitable for timber products other than products mentioned in item 6 or 7	29
2	Cypress sawlog	Cypress logs that are intended and suitable for making timber products	22
3	Hardwood sawlog	Hardwood logs that are intended and suitable for making timber products	22
4	Plywood and veneer log	Logs that are intended and suitable for making plywood or veneer products	15
5	Wood panels pulplog	Logs that are intended and suitable for the manufacture of panel board products	10
6	Low-grade softwood sawlog	Softwood sawlogs that are intended and suitable for making: (a) packaging products including timber packing, pallets and crates; or (b) horticultural products including trellises, stakes, sleepers, fence posts and palings; or (c) tile battens	8
7	Softwood roundwood log	Softwood logs that are intended and suitable for treating with preservative and using as poles or posts	8
8	Export woodchip hardwood pulplog	Hardwood logs that are intended and suitable for the production of woodchips for export	3.5
9	Export woodchip softwood pulplog	Softwood logs that are intended and suitable for the production of woodchips for export	0
10	Paper pulplog	Logs that are intended and suitable for making paper or pulp products	0

2Average value of a class of logs

• (1)

  For subclause 3 (6) of Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act, the average value of a class of logs for a financial year (the relevant financial year) is:

where:

A is the estimated average value per cubic metre of the class of logs produced, or to be produced, in the relevant financial year by the forest and wood products industry.

B is the average value per cubic metre of the class of logs produced by the forest and wood products industry in the financial year immediately before the relevant financial year (the previous financial year).

C is the average value per cubic metre of the class of logs produced by the forest and wood products industry in the year before the previous financial year.

• (2)

  For subregulation (1), the average values mentioned are the average value and the estimated average value shown in the official statistics supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

3Exemption from levy

 For subclause 3 (7) of Schedule 10 to the Excise Levies Act, levy is not payable by a person for a levy year if the total amount of:

• (a)

  levy; and

• (b)

  charge imposed under Schedule 7 to the Customs Charges Act; and

• (c)

  charge imposed under Schedule 8 to the Customs Charges Act;

that the person is liable to pay for the year is less than $330.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1999 No. 302, as amended by 2000 Nos. 132, 176, 237 (as amended by 2000 No. 265), 265, 320 and 345; 2001 Nos. 6, 61, 95 and 109.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette