EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO. 63
Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 1989
PIG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGULATIONS
The proposed Regulations provide for the establishment of the Pig Research and Development Corporation.
Section 8 of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 (the Act) provides for the establishment by regulation of a Research and Development Corporation in respect of a primary industry or class of primary industries and for the Corporation to be known by the name specified in the regulations.
Section 5 of the Act provides for a declaration by the regulations as to the levy to be attached to the Corporation. The whole of the research levy imposed by paragraph 6(1)a of the Pig Slaughter Lew Act 1971 is attached by the regulations to the Corporation under this provision.
Subsection 32(2) of the Act provides for a statement in the regulations as to the manner in which the Minister is to determine the amount of the gross value of production of goods that are the produce of the industry to which the levy relates, for a financial year. This is important in that subsection 32(1) of the Act limits the Commonwealth’s matching payments to the Corporation in a particular financial year to a maximum amount equal to 0.5% of the gross value of production of goods, as determined by the Minister, for that financial year.
Subsection 135(1) of the Act allows the Minister to appoint a Presiding Member of a Corporation Selection Committee if the Regulations have been made but are not yet in force. Appointment of a Presiding Member initiates the process of selecting persons suitable for appointment as Directors of the Corporation and it is important that this process be completed before the Corporation is established. It is therefore necessary that the Regulations be made well in advance of their commencement date.
The regulations will commence on 2 July 1990.