Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1522

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 28 June 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

JUDITH TROETH

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture,

Fisheries and Forestry

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 6).

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 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 9, clause 1

substitute

1Rates of levy

 For subclause 4 (1) of Schedule 9 to the Excise Levies Act, the following rates of levy are fixed:

• (a)

  for dried vine fruits — $0.00 per tonne;

• (b)

  for dried plums — $0.00 per tonne;

• (c)

  for dried tree fruits other than dried plums — $0.00 per tonne.

Note For the operative rate of NRS levy on dried fruits, see clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998.

[2]Schedule 15, Part 9

substitute

Part 9Dried fruits

9.1Definitions for Part 9

 In this Part:

dried fruits means dried tree fruits or dried vine fruits.

dried tree fruits means dried apricots, dried pears, dried peaches, dried nectarines or dried plums.

dried vine fruits means dried grapes.

9.2Dried fruits are leviable horticultural products

 For the definition of leviable horticultural products in clause 1 of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, dried fruits are leviable horticultural products.

9.3Rate of levy — marketing component

 For subclause 4 (1) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of levy is $7 per tonne of processed dried vine fruits.

Note   Subclause 2 (3) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act provides that levy is not imposed by that Schedule on leviable horticultural products that are exported from Australia.

9.4Rates of levy — research and development component

 For subclause 4 (3) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levy Act, the following rates of levy are fixed:

• (a)

  for dried vine fruits — $11 per tonne;

• (b)

  for dried plums — $13 per tonne;

• (c)

  for dried tree fruits other than dried plums — $32 per tonne.

Note For the operative rate of NRS levy on dried fruits, see clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998.

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, 109 and 113.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette