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AUSTRALIAN MEAT AND LIVE-STOCK (QUOTAS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2002 (NO. 1) 2002 NO. 137

STATUTORY RULES 2002 No. 137

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

Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990

Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)

Paragraph 6(2)(a) of the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990 (the Quotas Act) provides that the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry may grant a meat export quota by allocating it to a licensee on application by the licensee and on payment of the prescribed fee.

Section 9 of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted to be prescribed by the Quotas Act, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Quotas Act.

The Quota Administration and Statistics Unit of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry manages the allocation, monitoring and reporting of Australia's country-specific meat export quotas. The fee applied for the grant of quota, as agreed with the red meat industry, recovers the costs associated with the administration of the quotas on a fee for service basis.

The adoption of a management regime for the export of beef to the United States of America will require recovery of the prescribed fee from quota holders for the grant of quota. To permit the recovery of the fee to occur, the quota year applying to beef exports to the United States of America must be defined in the regulation. It is proposed to define this quota year as 1 January to 31 December.

Regulation 1 provides for the citation of the regulations.

Regulation 2 provides that the regulations will commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3 provides definitions relating to the terms "Act" and "quota year" as used in the regulations.

Schedule 1 (1) provides definitions to the terms "quota year" as used in the proposed regulations.

These regulations commenced on gazettal.