EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 No. 7
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Act imposes a levy on the slaughter of cattle, calves, bobby calves, buffaloes, sheep, lambs and goats, The levy consists of 4 components, which respectively raise funds for the following purposes:
(a) Financing of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC)
(b) General meat research
(c) Meat processing research
(d) Bovine disease eradication (only cattle, calves, bobby calves and buffaloes are levied for this purpose).
The Government has decided to accept an AMLC recommendation that the levy component which raises funds for AMLC activities be increased, in the case of lambs, by 10 cents per head with effect from 1 February 1984.
The additional funds collected will be used by the AMLC to finance lamb market development and promotion activities.