EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1986 NO 42
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY ACT 1965
POULTRY INDUSTRY LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Sub-section 6(1) of the Poultry Industry Levy Act 1965 (the Act), as amended, provides for division of the levy into two components to cater for separate marketing and research funds. The amended provision becomes operative when regulations prescribe the levy as a research levy for the purposes of the Rural Industries Research Act 1985.
Regulations have been made under the Rural Industries Research Act 1985 prescribing 1 April 1986 as the date on which the levy is a research levy.
Sub-section 6(2) of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations setting the level of levy for either purpose and shall take into account any recommendations made to the Minister for Primary Industry by the Australian Egg Marketing Council (the Council). The rate of levy for either purpose cannot be set at a rate in excess of the amount last recommended to the Minister by the Council.
The Council has recommended to the Minister that the rates of levy be set at 4.9 cents and 0.1 cents, respectively, for marketing and research effective 1 April 1986. The Minister has agreed with these recommendation which do not alter the current total rate (5.0 cents) of levy imposed.
The proposed regulation provides that on 1 April 1986 the present single rate of hen levy is repealed. From that date two component rates are established and applied.