Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Deer and Deer Velvet) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1998No. 150 1

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Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Deer and Deer Velvet) Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 and the Deer Slaughter Levy Act 1992.

Dated 18 June 1998.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

JUDITH TROETH

Parliamentary Secretary

to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

for the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

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1.   Commencement

1.1 These Regulations commence when Schedule 2 to the National Residue Survey Administration Amendment Act 1998 commences.

Note   That Schedule commences on 3 July 1998.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Deer and Deer Velvet) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 5 (Meaning of dressed carcase—subsection 5 (1) of the Deer Slaughter Levy Act)

3.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

Meaning of dressed carcase—s 5 (1) of the Deer Slaughter Levy Act

 “5. For the definition of dressed carcase in subsection 5 (1) of the Deer Slaughter Levy Act, dressed carcase of a slaughtered deer means the body of the deer after:

• (a)

  bleeding; and

• (b)

  skinning; and

• (c)

  the removal of the internal digestive, respiratory, excretory, reproductive and circulatory organs; and

• (d)

  minimum trimming (as required by the appropriate inspecting authority under any law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory) for the carcase to be passed as being fit for human consumption; and

• (e)

  the removal of:

  • (i)

    the head (severed between the occipital bone and the first cervical vertebra); and

  • (ii)

    the feet (severed between the knee joint (carpus and metacarpus) and the hock joint (tarsus and metatarsus)); and

  • (iii)

    so much of the tail as is longer than 5 coccygeal vertebrae; and

  • (iv)

    the thick skirt (by separating the connective tissue as close to the bodies of the lumbar vertebrae as possible); and

  • (v)

    the kidney, the kidney knob and the pelvic channel fat; and

  • (vi)

    in the case of a doe—the udder, or the udder and the cod fat; and

  • (vii)

    in the case of a stag—the penis and testes.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 June 1998.

2. Statutory Rules 1992 No. 203 as amended by 1995 No. 309; 1997 No. 365.