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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES LEVIES AND CHARGES COLLECTION (DEER AND DEER VELVET)REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1997 NO. 365

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1997 No. 365

Issued by Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Deer Slaughter Levy Act 1992

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Deer and Deer Velvet) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 9 of the Deer Slaughter Levy Act 1992 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed.

Section 30 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 (the Collection 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 the purposes of carrying out or giving effect to the Collection Act, in particular the making of provisions in relation to the payment of levy or amounts on account of levy and other amounts payable to the Commonwealth, such as penalties.

The purpose of the regulations is to decrease the operative rate of levy for deer slaughter under paragraph 7 (4) (b) of the Act from 15.5 cents per kilogram of slaughtered deer to 15.0 cents per kilogram of slaughtered deer. The deer slaughter levy is used for research and development purposes. The Deer Industry Association of Australia has sought this reduction so that 3.0 cents per kilogram of slaughtered deer can be used to fund the full cost of a chemical residue monitoring program. The overall rate of 18 cents per kilogram will remain the same.

Access to certain markets requires participation in an official national chemical residue monitoring program, as is the case for red meat products into domestic and export markets. Regulations covering the 3.0 cents per kilogram of slaughtered deer for the purposes of the National Residue Survey are the subject of a separate submission.

This rate of levy is effective from 1 January 1998, and is consistent with the wishes of the Deer Industry Association of Australia, the recognised representative industry organisation, in accordance with its current commitment to the National Residue Survey.


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