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IMPORTED FOOD CONTROL REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1997 NO. 289

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1997 No. 289

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Imported Food Control Act 1992

Imported Food Control Regulations (Amendment)

Section 43 of the Imported Food Control Act 1992 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing 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.

The Imported Food Control Regulations (the Regulations) prescribe what fees are payable for chargeable services in relation to inspection and analysis of imported foods under the Act and when these fees must be paid.

The purpose of the Imported Food Control Regulations (Amendment) is to increase the fees payable for services performed outside ordinary hours of duty to reflect the cost of providing these services. This increase will bring overtime fees within the Imported Foods inspection programme into line with the equivalent charges in all other Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service inspection programmes.

The Imported Food Control Regulations (Amendment) amends the Regulations as follows:

Regulation 1 - Amendment

Subregulation 1.1 provides that the Regulations as amended will commence on gazettal.

Regulation 2 - Regulation 36 (Prescribed chargeable service - lodgement of import entry)

Subregulation 2.1 amends the existing style of Regulation 36. There is no change to the definition that is currently in place.

Regulation 3 - Schedule 2, Part 2 (Fees for services performed out of ordinary hours of duty

Subregulation 3.1 replaces the overtime rates set out in column 3 of item 6. The charge rates for chargeable services performed out of ordinary hours have been increased: from $6 to $7 for time-and-a-half rates with the minumum time-and-a-half charge being increased from $104 to $122; from $8 to $9.40 for double time rates with the minumum double time charge being increased from $128 to $150; from $10 to $11.80 for double time-and-a-half rates with the minumum double time-and-a-half charge being increased from $160 to $188.


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