Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998 (Amendment) 1998 No. 182
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1998 No. 182
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998
Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998 (Amendment)
Section 8 of the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed by the Act, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The purpose of these regulations is to correct a drafting fault in the original regulations and to insert a new regulation that prescribes the rate of levy to apply to transactions on sheep and lambs where no sale price is provided to determine an ad velorum payment for the purpose of the industry's National Residue Survey monitoring program.
The National Residue Survey implements chemical residue monitoring programs and recovers the costs of the programs from participating industries. These programs form the basis for documentation that enables the Australian Government to certify that raw food products bound for export and domestic consumption are free from significant chemical contamination.
The regulations set the operative rate of levy for sheep (1.8 cents per head) and for lambs (4.7 cents per head) agreed to by the Sheepmeat Council of Australia to apply to ovine transactions where no sale price exists.
These regulations commenced on 3 July 1998.