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FOREST AND WOOD PRODUCTS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 203

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 203

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Resources

Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989

Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 149(1) of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

A Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation was established by regulation under the Act with effect from 1 January 1994, in keeping with the Government's intention announced in the National Forest Policy Statement of December 1992.

Section 5 of the Act provides for a declaration by regulations as to the levies to be attached to the Corporation. The whole of the levies to be imposed by section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Levies Act 1993 and the charges imposed by section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Export Charge Act 1993 and section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Import Charge Act 1993 are attached to the Corporation by the regulations under this provision.

Section 32 of the Act provides that the Commonwealth's contribution to the Corporation must not exceed 0.25% of the gross value of production determined by the Minister for the forest and wood products industries for that financial year. Section 32 of the Act also provides for the manner in which the Minister determines the gross value of production of goods to be provided by regulations.

Details of the regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for the regulations to commence on 1 July 1994.

Regulation 2 provides for the existing regulations to be amended.

Regulation 3 provides additional definitions of terms to be inserted into Regulation 3 of the existing regulations.

Regulation 4 inserts new regulations after Regulation 4 (Establishment of the Forest and Wood Products Research and Development Corporation) in the existing regulations. New Regulation 5 declares the research levies and charges imposed by section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Levy Bill 1993, section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Export Charge Act 1993 and section 5 of the Forest Industries Research Import Charge Act 1993 to be attached to the Corporation and the forest and wood products industries to be the primary industry to which the levies and charges relate. New regulation 6 provides for the method to be used to calculate the gross value of production for the forest and wood products industry.


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