Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 4) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 4)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 1072

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, 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 29 May 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

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 2002 (No. 4).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2002.

3Amendment of Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

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

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Schedule 15, paragraph 17.1 (c)

substitute

• (c)

  hard onions (being bulbs of the species Allium cepa); or

[2]Schedule 15, clause 17.1, note 2

omit

Division 2

insert

Division 3

[3]Schedule 15, clause 17.1, note 3

substitute

Note 3   For levy on Agaricus mushrooms and hard onions, see Parts 18 and 19 of this Schedule.

[4]Schedule 15, after Part 18

insert

Part 19Hard onions

19.1Hard onions are leviable horticultural products

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

Note 1   Hard onion is defined in clause 19.2 of Schedule 22 to the Collection Regulations.

Note 2   Clauses 19.2 and 19.3 intentionally not used.

19.4Rate of levy — research and development component

 For subclause 4 (3) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of levy is $1.60 per tonne of hard onions.

Note 1   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.

Note 2  For the rate of NRS levy on hard onions, see Schedule 9 to the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998, Schedule 4 to the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998 and Division 3 of Part 11 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998.

19.5What is the eligible industry body for hard onions

 For subclauses 6 (7), (8) and (10) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the eligible industry body for hard onions is the Australian Onion Industry Association Inc (ABN 26 558 335 296).

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, 113, 152, 217, 234, 258 and 260; 2002 Nos. 3, 55 and 68.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette