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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES (EXCISE) LEVIES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2000 (NO. 2) 2000 NO. 176

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

STATUTORY RULES 2000 No. 176

Issued by the Authority of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2)

Section 8 of the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

The regulations will remove the rate for the Market Milk Levy and Manufacturing Milk Levy from the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999 (the principal regulations).

The Dairy Market Support Scheme, administered under the Dairy Produce Act 1986, ended on 30 June 2000. At that time, certain levies that applied to milk products, including the Market Milk Levy, the Manufacturing Milk Levy, the Import Offset Charge, the Charge on Re-Importation of Exported Dairy Produce and the Acquisition Offset Levy ceased. These levies and charges were imposed by the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999 and the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

The rates of the Market Milk Levy and the Manufacturing Milk Levy were set by the principal regulations. The applicable rates for the Import Offset Charge, the Charge on Re-Importation of Exported Dairy Produce and the Acquisition Offset Levy were determined by the rate of the Manufacturing Milk Levy.

As the Dairy Market Support Scheme ended on 30 June 2000, the Regulations setting the rate for these levies are no longer relevant after that date.

Details of the Regulations amending Schedule 6 of the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999 are set out in the attachment.

The Regulations commence on gazettal.

Attachment

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2)

Regulation 1 provides the name to the proposed regulations as the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2).

Regulation 2 prescribes that the proposed regulations would commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 would amend the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1 provides that;

*       the definitions of Market Milk Levy and Manufacturing Milk Levy are removed from Schedule 6 Clause 1 of the Regulations;

*       Schedule 6, Clause 2, "Market milk levy - prescribed milk fate rate and protein rate" is removed;

*       Schedule 6, Clause 3, Manufacturing milk levy - prescribed milk fat rate and protein rate" is removed; and

*       The title of Schedule 6, Clause 4 "Other levies - prescribed milk fat rate and protein rate" is amended to "Dairy producer levies-prescribed milk fat rate and protein rate".


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