EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO. 372
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Resources
TRITICALE LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1988
TRITICALE LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS
Subsection 20(1) of the Triticale Levy Collection Act 1988 (No. assented to December 1988) (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Act will come into operation on 1 January 1989 as fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2) of the Triticale Levy Act 1988 (the Levy Act).
The Triticale Levy Collection Regulations (the proposed Regulations) prescribe details of the collection mechanism for levy imposed under the Levy Act including manner of payment of levy, submission of returns and record keeping requirements.
Details of the proposed Regulations are given in Attachment A.
Details of the Proposed Regulations Attachment A
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations may be cited as the Triticale Levy Collection Regulations.
Regulation 2 provides a definition of various words and expressions used in the Regulations.
Regulation 3 provides that amounts payable under the Act shall be paid to the Collector of Public Moneys at the office of the Department in Canberra.
Regulation 4 requires growers, receivers and purchasers of leviable grain to submit a return to the Secretary containing prescribed particulars as defined under that Regulation.
Regulation 5 allows for a person required to sign a return under Regulation (4) to appoint an authorised agent to sign the return on the person’s behalf. The form of appointment of the authorised person is given in the Schedule to the Regulations.
Regulation 6 details requirements for the signing of returns by receivers, purchasers and growers of leviable grain and their lodgement with the office of the Department in Canberra.
Regulation 7 requires receivers and purchasers of leviable grain and growers who process or export leviable grain to keep records, showing the quantities of leviable grain involved, for the periods specified in subregulation (2).
Regulation 8 specifies that a warrant to enter premises under Section 13 of the Act may be in the form given in the Schedule to the Regulations.