2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Export Inspection (Service Charge) 

Amendment Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Agriculture) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to 

exports, and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to 

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exports, and for related purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Export Inspection (Service Charge) 

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Amendment Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

At the same time as the Export Legislation 

Amendment Act 2014 commences. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

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this Act. 

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(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

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may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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3  Schedule(s) 

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

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Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985 

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1  Section 4 

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Repeal the section, substitute: 

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4  Definitions 

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  In this Act: 

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charge means charge imposed by this Act. 

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exportable goods means goods that are: 

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(a)  prescribed goods (within the meaning of the Export Control 

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Act 1982); and 

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(b)  prescribed in regulations made for the purposes of this 

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definition. 

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2  Subsection 6(1) 

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Repeal the subsection, substitute: 

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(1)  Charge is imposed on the provision of an export inspection service 

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at an establishment that, at the time the service is provided, is 

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registered for operations associated with the preparation of 

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exportable goods. 

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3  Subsection 6(3) 

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Repeal the subsection, substitute: 

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(3)  Charge is imposed on the provision of an external export 

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inspection service relating to exportable goods. 

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4  Subsection 7(2) 

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Omit "prescribed commodity", substitute "exportable goods". 

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5  Application of amendments 

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The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to export 

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inspection services provided on or after the first day of the first financial 

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year starting on or after the commencement of this Schedule. 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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6  Transitional

--initial regulations 

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(1) 

This item applies to the Export Inspection (Service Charge) 

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Regulations 1985 (as in force immediately before the commencement of 

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this item). 

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(2) 

The regulations (to the extent that they specify or refer to commodities) 

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have effect, after the commencement of this item, as if: 

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(a)  any of those commodities that is not a prescribed good 

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(within the meaning of the Export Control Act 1982) were 

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disregarded; and 

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(b)  the remaining commodities were goods prescribed for the 

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purposes of the definition of exportable goods in section 4 of 

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the Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985 as amended 

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by this Act. 

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