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LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 120

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 120

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

LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY ACT 1964

LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

The Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters for the purposes of the Act.

Sections 6A, 6B, 6C and 6D of the Act impose a levy on the slaughter of sheep, lambs, buffaloes and goats. This levy consists of three components (except for buffaloes which additionally have a component for financing of bovine disease eradication), which raise funds for the following purposes:

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

(b)        financing of the Meat Research Corporation (MRC)

(c)       financing of the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Consultation Council. (EXANDIS).

Subsections 8(3) and 8(4) of the Act provide that the AMLC and MRC may not make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the rates of levy unless a motion to endorse a recommendation has been put before the annual general meeting of the appropriate Corporation and has been carried. Additionally, the Act requires the Corporations to provide, in writing, details of the voting on the motion to the Minister.

The purpose of the regulations is to implement recommendations from the AMLC to reduce their levy components because of higher than expected collections from the levy since 1 February 1991. The effect of the AMLC levy reductions is to reduce the Corporation's level of reserves, through returning to the industry past over-collections from this period.

The AMLC put a motion before its annual general meeting on 25 November 1993 proposing decreases in the operative rates of the AMLC components of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy and the Live-stock Export Charge from 1 July 1994. This motion was passed and the AMLC has notified the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, in writing, of details of the voting on this motion, as required by the Act.

The MRC has not recommended any change in the operative rates of the MRC components of the Livestock Slaughter Levy nor the Livestock Export Charge.

The relevant operative rates of levy and the prescribed maximum rates are as follows:

(per head)

Rates from     
1 July 1993

Rates from     
1 July 1994

Prescribed
maximum rates

Sheep




AMLC

38.2 cents

32.1 cents


MRC

12.5 cents

12.5 cents

20 cents

Subtotal

50.7 cents

44.6 cents

$1.50

EXANDIS

0.1 cents

0.1 cents


Total

50.8 cents

44.7 cents


Lambs




AMLC

88.2 cents

74.1 cents


MRC

12.5 cents

12.5 cents

20 cents

Subtotal

100.7 cents

86.6 cents

$1.50

EXANDIS

0.1 cents

0.1 cents


Total

100.8 cents

86.7 cents


Buffaloes




AMLC

$3.10

$2.60


MRC

$2.00

$2.00

$2.00

Subtotal

$5.10

$4.60

$18.00

Disease Eradication     

$0.73

$0.73

$4.00

EXANDIS

$0.03

$0.03

$5.00

Total

$5.86

$5.36


Goats




AMLC

28.2 cents

23.7 cents


MRC

12.5 cents

12.5 cents

20 cents

Subtotal

40.7 cents

36.2 cents

$1.00

EXANDIS

0.1 cents

0.1 cents


Total

40.8 cents

36.3 cents



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