Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 5) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 5)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 1552

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 26 June 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. 5).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 August 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 3.2 (a)

omit

500 boxes:

insert

9 000 kilograms:

[2]Schedule 15, clause 3.2, notes 1 and 2

substitute

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.

[3]Schedule 15, clauses 3.3 and 3.4

substitute

3.3Rates of levy — marketing component

 For subclause 4 (1) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the following rates of levy are prescribed:

• (a)

  for apples (other than juicing apples or processing apples) — 1.11 cents per kilogram of apples;

• (b)

  for pears (other than juicing pears or processing pears) — 1.25 cents per kilogram of pears;

• (c)

  for juicing apples — $2 per tonne of apples;

• (d)

  for juicing pears — $2.25 per tonne of pears;

• (e)

  for processing apples — $4 per tonne of apples;

• (f)

  for processing pears — $4.50 per tonne of pears.

3.4Rates of levy — research and development component

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

• (a)

  for apples (other than juicing apples or processing apples) — 0.36 cent per kilogram of apples;

• (b)

  for pears (other than juicing pears or processing pears) — 0.33 cent per kilogram of pears;

• (c)

  for juicing apples — 65 cents per tonne of apples;

• (d)

  for juicing pears — 60 cents per tonne of apples;

• (e)

  for processing apples —$1.30 per tonne of apples;

• (f)

  for processing pears — $1.20 per tonne of pears.

Note   For the operative rate of NRS excise levy on apples and pears, see clause 5 of Schedule 9 to the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998.

[4]Further amendments — headings in Schedule 15

 Each provision of Schedule 15 mentioned in column 1 of the following table is amended by omitting the heading to the provision and inserting the heading mentioned in column 2 for that provision.

Provision	insert
Clause 2.4	2.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 4.3	4.3Rates of levy — marketing component
Clause 4.4	4.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 5.4	5.4Rate of levy — research and development component
Clause 6.3	6.3Rate of levy — marketing component
Clause 6.4	6.4Rate of levy — research and development component
Clause 7.3	7.3Rates of levy — marketing component
Clause 7.4	7.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 8.3	8.3Rates of levy — marketing component
Clause 8.4	8.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 10.3	10.3Rate of levy — marketing component
Clause 10.4	10.4Rate of levy — research and development component
Clause 11.4	11.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 12.3	12.3Rate of levy — marketing component
Clause 12.4	12.4Rate of levy — research and development component
Clause 13.4	13.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 14.4	14.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 15.3	15.3Rates of levy — marketing component
Clause 15.4	15.4Rates of levy — research and development component
Clause 16.4	16.4Rate of levy — research and development component
Clause 17.5	17.5Rate of levy — research and development component

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, 68 and 107.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette