Wool Industry (Sampling Sites) Regulations (Amendment)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1984 No. 266

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry

WOOL INDUSTRY ACT 1972

WOOL INDUSTRY (SAMPLING SITES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

The Wool Industry Act 1972 provides for the Governor-General to make regulations for and in relation to -

• the registration and inspection of wool sampling sites, and

• the fees payable in respect of the registration and inspection of sampling sites in accordance with the regulations.

The Wool Industry (Sampling Sites) Regulations provide for the registration of establishments testing wool and for monitoring their sampling and testing procedures to ensure that they maintain a high standard of performance. The Regulations prescribe the fees payable for registration and monitoring.

The Wool Industry (Sampling Sites) Regulations (Amendment) made the following changes:

• first, the definitions of “Department” and “financial year” were omitted from regulation 3 consequentially upon definitions of those terms having been included in the Acts Interpretation Act 1901,

• second, the word “Presale” was omitted from the definition of “I.W.T.O. Certificate” in regulation 3 in order to reflect the change in the title of the certificate of the International Wool Textile Organisation (I.W.T.O.) used to report the results of the testing of greasy wool samples taken from registered sampling sites and consequential changes were made in the remainder of the Regulations, and

• third, the fee for inspection of registered sampling sites by the Australian Wool Measurement and Standards Authority of the Department of Primary Industry was decreased.

The inspection fees have been revised with a view to achieving 50% recovery of costs incurred during the remainder of 1984-85 in line with Government policy. The fee is based on the number of lots of wool expected to be sampled at registered sampling sites for the purpose of the issue of I.W.T.O. Certificates during the 1983-84 financial year and the cost of inspection during that period.

The reduction in the fee per lot of wool sampled in respect of monitoring arose as a result of a significant increase expected in the size of the 1984-85 wool clip. No consequent increase in the number of inspection staff is expected.

The former and present fees are as follows

The reduced rate of charge for monitoring of sampling at registered sampling sites is to come into effect from 1 October 1984.