EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO 53
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.
WOOL MARKETING ACT 1987
Wool Marketing Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 127(1) Of the Wool Marketing Act 1987 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed.
The Exotic Animal Disease Control Act 1989 establishes an Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council and provides financial assistance for purposes related to the control and eradication of exotic animal diseases.
Financial assistance is provided through a trust account to receive annual industry contributions of $750,000 and for expenditure of industry contributions from the account to be matched on a dollar for dollar basis by Commonwealth grant funds. The industries to come within the new arrangements are the wool, sheepmeat, beef, dairy, pigs, poultry, buffalo and goat industries.
The Act has been amended to provide for a new payment from the wool industry for exotic disease purposes. It is now necessary to prescribe by regulation this payment.
Subsection 53A(2) of the Act provides that before making regulations prescribing such payment the Governor-General shall take into consideration any recommendations made to the Minister by the members of the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council nominated by the National Farmers’ Federation and regulations shall not be made prescribing a payment that is greater than the payment last recommended.
The industry payment for 1990/91 is $431,823 and the purpose of the regulation is to impose this payment payable on 1 July 1990.