EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1983 NO 90
Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Resources and Energy for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industry
DAIRY INDUSTRY STABILIZATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Section 25 of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Act 1977 provides for the Governor-General to make regulations not inconsistent with that Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by that Act to be prescribed, or for facilitating the collection or recovery of amounts of levy.
Regulation 3 of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Regulations requires that separate accounts be kept by the Australian Dairy Corporation in respect of processed butteroil and processed cheese while section 11(1) of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Act requires that separate accounts be kept for butter/butteroil and cheese respectively. These procedures form part of the present compulsory dairy marketing stabilization arrangements which involve a levy collection/disbursement system for prescribed dairy products.
The Australian Dairy Corporation has found it impracticable to keep separate accounts for processed butteroil and processed cheese. To avoid a double levy on butteroil and cheese, processed butteroil and processed cheese are effectively exempted from payment of levy under current legislation. However this means that no
levy receipts are credited to these accounts and as a result no moneys are available for payments of allowances to cover certain expenditures for these products.
To overcome this problem, Regulation 3 of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Regulations which requires that separate accounts be kept for processed butteroil and processed cheese will be repealed and Regulation 4 will be amended to provide for any payments in respect of processed butteroil and processed cheese to be credited to the butter/butteroil and cheese accounts respectively.
Minor amendments to the stabilization Regulations will also be made to take into account changes in the designation of certain officers of the Department of Primary Industry and the Australian Dairy Corporation.