EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO. 50
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.
DAIRY PRODUCE LEVY (NO.1) ACT 1986
Dairy Produce Levy Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 14 (1) of the Dairy Produce Levy (No 1) Act 1986 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters
(a) required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Act deals with the financing aspects of the dairy industry arrangements which are implemented under the Dairy Produce Act 1986. The Act is read as one with the Dairy Produce Act 1986.
The Exotic Animal Disease Control Act 1989 establishes an Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council and provides financial assistance for purposes related to the control and eradication of exotic animal diseases.
Financial assistance is provided through a trust account to receive annual industry contributions of $750,000 and for expenditure of industry contributions from the account to be matched on a dollar for dollar basis by Commonwealth grant funds. The industries to come within the new arrangements are the wool, sheepmeat, beef, dairy, pigs, poultry, buffalo and goat industries.
The Act has been amended to provide a new levy component for exotic disease purposes.
Subsection 14(4) of the Act provides that before making regulations prescribing such a rate the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendations made to the Minister by the members of the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council nominated by the National Farmers’ Federation and regulations shall not be made prescribing a rate that is higher than the rate last recommended.
The industry payment is 0.03 cent per kilogram of milk fat and the purpose of the regulation is to impose this levy rate, to apply from 1 April 1990. This rate is below the maximum rate of 0.066 cent per kilogram of milk fat as specified in sub-section 7(4A) of the Act.