Sugar Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1) (Cth)

Sugar Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1342

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 and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.

Dated 13 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 Sugar Research and Development Corporation Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on 1 July 2001.

3Amendment of Sugar Research and Development Corporation Regulations

Schedule 1 amends the Sugar Research and Development Corporation Regulations.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Regulation 1

substitute

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Sugar Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1990.

[2]Regulation 3, definition of Corporation

substitute

Act means the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.

Corporation means the Corporation declared by regulation 4 to be established.

[3]Regulation 3, definition of the Act

omit

[4]Regulation 4

omit

the purposes of

[5]Subregulation 5 (1)

substitute

• (1)

  For paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Act, the levy imposed by clause 3 of Schedule 24 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999 is attached to the Corporation.

[6]Subregulations 5 (2) and (3)

omit

the purposes of

[7]Regulation 6

substitute

6Gross value of production

• (1)

  For subsection 32 (2) of the Act, the Minister must determine the amount of the gross value of production of sugar cane, for a financial year (the relevant financial year), by using:

where:

A is the estimated value of the sugar cane to be produced in the relevant financial year.

B is the value of the sugar cane produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant financial year (the previous financial year).

C is the value of the sugar cane produced in the financial year immediately before the previous financial year.

• (2)

  In subregulation (1), a reference to the value of sugar cane produced, or to the estimated value of sugar cane to be produced, in a financial year is a reference to the production figure supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics that shows:

  • (a)

    the gross value of sugar cane produced that is cut for crushing by the sugar industry in that financial year; or

  • (b)

    the estimated gross value of sugar cane to be produced that will be cut for crushing by the sugar industry for that financial year.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1990 No. 234.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette