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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES LEVIES AND CHARGES COLLECTION (BUFFALO, CATTLE AND LIVE-STOCK) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1999 (NO. 2) 1999 NO. 180

STATUTORY RULES 1999 No. 180

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

Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Buffalo, Cattle and Live-stock) Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 2)

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

In the case of levy on lambs, subclause 4(3) of Schedule 18 of the Excise Act provides that the levy rates imposed on each head of lambs is the amount, subject to statutory maximums, prescribed (by regulation).

The levy rates are prescribed in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Buffalo, Cattle and Live-stock) Amendment Regulations 1998. The purpose of the amending regulations, together with amending regulations under the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998, is to halve the operative rate of levy applying to transactions on lambs. This is part of a two-year package of measures to assist the Australian lamb industry cope with the US decision to impose certain border restriction on lamb imports.

The amending regulations are expressed to commence on 1 September 1999. Clause 7 of Schedule 18 of the Excise Act provides that Schedule 18 of that Act ceases to be in force at the end of 30 June 2000. A consequence of that would be that the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection (Buffalo, Cattle and Live-stock) Regulations 1998 also would cease to be in force. The amending regulation contains notes advising that if Schedule 18 of the Excise Act continues in force after 30 June 2000, it is intended that the new levy as provided for in the amending regulations be continued in force to 31 August 2001.