Pig Slaughter Levy Amendment Act 1989
No. 134 of 1989
An Act to amend the Pig Slaughter Levy Act 1971
[Assented to 7 November 1989]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title etc.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Pig Slaughter Levy Amendment Act 1989.
(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Pig Slaughter Levy Act 19711.
Commencement
2. (1) In this section:
“month” means one of the months of a calendar year.
(2) This Act commences:
(a) if the Exotic Animal Disease Control Act 1989 commences on the first day of a month—on the first day after the end of that month; or
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—on the first day after the end of the month next following the month in which that Act commences.
Rate of levy
3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “and”;
(b) by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following word and paragraph:
“; and (c) such amount (not exceeding 1.5 cents) as is prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph.”;
(c) by adding at the end the following subsections:
“(4) Before making regulations prescribing an amount for the purposes of paragraph (1) (c), the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendation with respect to the amount to be prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph made to the Minister by the members of the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council (being the Council established by the Exotic Animal Disease Control Act 1989) nominated by the National Farmers’ Federation and regulations shall not be made prescribing an amount for the purposes of that paragraph that is greater than the amount last recommended by those members to the Minister.
“(5) Paragraph (1) (c) and subsection (4), unless sooner repealed, shall cease to have effect at the end of 30 June 1995.”.
NOTE
1. No. 28, 1971, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 45, 1975; No. 37, 1976; No. 111, 1978; Nos. 51 and 61, 1981; No. 56, 1984; No. 103, 1985; and Nos. 25 and 159, 1986.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 24 May 1989
Senate on 26 October 1989]