EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO 139
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
WOOL MARKETING ACT 1987
WOOL MARKETING REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Section 127 of the Wool Marketing Act 1987 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make Regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all 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 including the fees payable in respect of the registration and inspection of sampling sites.
Paragraph 27(b) of the Wool Marketing Regulations (the Regulations) provides that upon lodgement with the Secretary of an application for registration of a sampling site, such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
Subregulation 35(1) of the Regulations prescribed the amount of such fee to be $100. The Wool Marketing Regulations (Amendment) (the amending Regulations) changes such prescribed amount from $100 to $120.
Subregulation 35(2) of the Regulations requires the operator of a registered sampling site to pay an inspection fee in respect of an inspection or inspections carried out in relation to the site during each financial year.
Paragraph 35(3)(b), in effect, prescribes that the minimum fee payable under subregulation 35(2) of the Regulations to be $100. The amending Regulations will change such prescribed fee from $100 to $120.
The amending Regulations came into operation on 1 July 1988.