EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1987 No. 242
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
MEAT CHICKEN LEVY ACT 1969
MEAT CHICKEN LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Meat Chicken Levy Act 1969 (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations for the purposes of section 7 of the Act. Section 7 of the Act provides the levy shall be
• 0.1 cents per chicken hatched in respect of meat chickens hatched before 1 July 1972, and
• in respect of other meat chickens hatched, a prescribed rate of levy not exceeding 1 cent per chicken.
Before making regulations prescribing a rate for meat chickens hatched on or after 1 July 1972, the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect of levy made to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy by the Chicken Meat Research Council.
The Meat Chicken Levy Regulations currently prescribe a levy of 0.125 cents per chicken hatched.
The Chicken Meat Research Council recommended to the Minister that the meat chicken levy be increased to 0.1375 cents per chicken hatched to reverse the depletion in level of reserves in the Trust Fund, and to maintain the real level of its research program beyond 1987/88.
The purpose of the proposed regulations is to apply an increased operative rate of levy from 1 November 1987. From that date, the meat chicken levy will be 0.1375 cents per chicken hatched. The new rate does not exceed the maximum rate for research prescribed by the Act.