EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 No. 49
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS ( AMENDMENT)
These regulations are designed to amend the existing regulations under the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 so as to increase the amounts levied per head of livestock.
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 meat processing research be increased. The meat processing research component will be increased with effect from 1 April 1984. The new rates of levy for this component will be as follows:
| Meat processing Research (cents per head) |
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Cattle and buffaloes | 4.0 |
Calves | 1.4 |
Bobby calves | 0.4 |
Sheep, lambs and goats | 0.4 |
The increases are required to maintain existing research programs in the light of falling livestock slaughter numbers and increasing research costs.
Before making its recommendation the AMLC consulted the Australian Meat Research Committee, the Meat Exporter and Abattoir Operator Consultative Group and the Live-stock Producer Consultative Group.