Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 6) (Cth)

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 6)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2011 No. 261

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, 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 7 December 2011

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

MIKE KELLY

Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1. Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 6).

1. Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 January 2012.

1. Amendment of Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

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

Schedule 1          Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]          Schedule 23, clause 1

substitute

1. Leviable rice varieties

For Schedule 23 to the Excise Levies Act, all varieties of rice of the species Oryza sativa are specified.

[2]          Schedule 23, paragraphs 2 (b) and (c)

substitute

(b)on or after 1 January 2009 — $2.94 per tonne of rice.

[3]          Schedule 23, subclause 3 (2)

substitute

1. For clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of PHA levy on leviable rice, on or after 1 January 2009, is 6 cents per tonne of rice.

Note

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