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CATTLE TRANSACTION LEVY REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 367

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 367

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy.

Subject - Cattle Transaction Levy Act 1990

Cattle Transaction Levy Regulations (Amendment)

The Cattle Transaction Levy Act 1990 (the Act) imposes a levy on the sale of cattle and bobby calves, their delivery to a processor other than by reason of sale to the processor and the slaughter or export of cattle on which a levy has not previously been paid. The levy consists of four components which raise funds for the following purposes:

a) financing the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC);

b) financing the Meat Research Corporation (MRC);

c) bovine disease eradication; and

d) financing of the National Residue Survey (NRS).

As a result of the success of the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign, which will soon make the transition from an active to a monitoring phase, and the level of reserves in the National Cattle Disease Eradication Trust Account, the Cattle Council of Australia has recommended a decrease in the rate of levies for bovine disease eradication purposes. The Minister for Primary Industries and Energy has accepted this recommendation. The new rates will have effect from 1 December 1991.

The present and proposed operative rates and the prescribed maximum rates of levy for cattle and bobby calves are:

Cattle AMLC MRC Total Disease erad NRS Total Bobby calves       AMLC MRC Total Disease erad NRS Total	Present rates       $3.15 $0.88 $4.03 $2.10 $0.12 $6.25 $0.70 $0.19 $0.89 $0.08 $0.12 $1.09	Proposed rates       (per head) $3.15 $0.88 $4.03 $0.85 $0.12 $5.00 $0.70 $0.19 $0.89 $0.00 $0.12 $1.01	Prescribed maximum rates $6.00 $2.00 $4.00 $0.25 $1.40 $0.40 $0.20 $0.25

The AMLC, MRC and NRS components of the levy remain unchanged by these Regulations.