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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES LEVIES AND CHARGES COLLECTION (NATIONAL RESIDUE SURVEY -RATITE SLAUGHTER) REGULATIONS 1997 NO. 206

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 1997 No. 206

Issued by Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

National Residue Survey (Ratite Slaughter) Levy Act 1997

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (National Residue Survey - Ratite Slaughter) Regulations

Section 8 of the National Residue Survey (Ratite Slaughter) Levy Act 1997 (the NRS Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the NRS Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the NRS Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the NRS Act.

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.

The purpose of the regulations is to set out the administrative arrangements for the collection of a levy that recovers the full cost of conducting a National Residue Survey residue monitoring program for the ratite emu industry. Ratites are members of-the avian order of large flightless vertebrates. This order includes Ostriches, Emu, Cassowary, Rhea and Kiwi. Access to certain markets requires participation in an official national residue monitoring program, as is the case for meat of the ratite emu (intended for human consumption) into export markets.

These regulations are effective from the date of gazettal, and are consistent with the wishes of the Ratite Emu Industry.


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