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LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 368

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 368

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.

Subject - Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964

Live-stock Slaughter Levy Regulations (Amendment)

The Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 (the Act) imposes a levy on the slaughter of sheep, lambs, buffaloes and goats. The levy consists of four components which raise funds for the following purposes:

a)       financing the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC);

b)       financing the Meat Research Corporation (MRC);

c)       financing the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultative Council (EXANDIS); and

d)       bovine disease eradication (buffaloes only).

As a result of the success of the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign, which will soon make the transition from an active to a monitoring phase, and the level of reserves in the National Cattle Disease Eradication Trust Account, the Cattle Council of Australia has recommended a decrease in the rate of levies on buffaloes for bovine disease eradication purposes. The Minister for Primary Industries and Energy has accepted this recommendation. The new rates will have effect from 1 December 1991.

The present and proposed operative rates and the prescribed maximum rates of levy for buffaloes are:

AMLC MRC Total Disease erad       EXANDIS Total

Present rates       $3.10 $2.00 $5.10 $3.00 $0.029649 $8.129649

Proposed rates       (per head) $3.10 $2.00 $5.10 $1.20 $0.029649 $6.329649

Prescribed maximum rates $2.00 $18.00 $5.00

The AMLC, MRC and EXANDIS components of the levy remain unchanged by these Regulations.