EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO. 51
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.
LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY ACT 1964
Live-stock Slaughter Levy Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 8(1) of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed.
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. The purpose of the regulations is to set the operative levy rates.
Subsection 8 (2B) 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 rates were set after the Governor-General had taken into consideration these recommendations and the purpose of the regulation is to impose these levy rates, to apply from 1 April 1990:
| COMMODITY | RATE (cents) | LEVY UNIT |
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| Cattle | 2.96 | Head |
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| Calves | 0.78 | „ |
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| Bobby Calves | 0.21 | „ |
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| Buffaloes | 2.96 | „ |
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| Sheep | 0.10 | „ |
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| Lambs | 0.10 | „ |
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| Goats | 0.11 | „ |
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