EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO.203
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.
WOOL MARKETING ACT 1987
WOOL MARKETING REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The regulations repeal those Wool Marketing Regulations concerning the involvement of registered persons in the payment of Market Support Fund refunds to growers, remuneration of those registered persons, and persons who become registered persons again after ceasing to be registered persons. These regulations are not required because registered persons are no longer involved in the process of making Market Support Refunds to growers.
The regulations insert into the Wool Marketing Regulations provision for the Australian Wool Corporation (AWC) to seek from registered persons information additional to that which may have been supplied by those persons and which relates to wool tax payments on wool sold under the Reserve Price Scheme. A penalty applies for failure to comply with a direction from the AWC, without a reasonable excuse.
The regulations also provide for penalties for offences where the AWC has prohibited a person from offering wool for sale for export, or ordered a person to withdraw wool from sale for export, or where a person exports wool that fails to meet industry standards or industry terms for clip preparation, contamination and wool packs.