EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1986 No. 39
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 imposes a levy on the slaughter of cattle, calves, bobby calves, buffaloes, sheep, lambs and goats. The levy consists of three components, which respectively raise funds for the following purposes:
(a) Financing of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC)
(b) Financing of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Research and Development Corporation (AMLRDC)
(c) Bovine disease eradication (only cattle, calves, bobby calves and buffaloes are levied for this purpose).
The Government has decided to accept an AMLRDC recommendation that the levy component that raises funds for AMLRDC activities be increased.
It is proposed the revised rates will come into operation on 1 May 1986.
The draft Statutory Rules also make drafting amendments pursuant to Section 12 of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Amendment Act 1985, which, inter alia, removed the necessity to collect funds separately for general meat industry research and special meat processing research, and provided for funds to be collected for both purposes under the single AMLRDC component. To achieve this the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Amendment Act 1985 omitted paragraphs of the Act which raised funds for special meat industry research, but at the same time provided a transitional provision so that the levy imposed for special meat industry research before the amendment came into effect, continued to be imposed for AMLRDC research until the relevant regulations were next amended. This condition is met by the above amendments to the regulations, so sub-regulations which used to set the operative rates for special meat industry research are to be omitted.
The present and proposed operative rates and maximum rates are as follows:
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| Present Rates (a) | Proposed Rates | Maximum Rates |
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| Cattle Sheep Lambs Buffaloes Goats Calves Bobby Calves | 54.0 5.4 5.4 54.0 5.4 14.4 3.9 | 75.0 7.5 7.5 75.0 7.5 20.0 5.5 | 108 14 14 108 14 38 11 |
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(a) NB - includes rates which were imposed separately for general meat industry research and special meat processing research.