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RURAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS REGULATIONS(AMENDMENT) 1998 NO. 105

STATUTORY RULES 1998 NO. 105

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

Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989

Rural Industries Research and Development Corporations Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 149(1) of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 9 of the Act provides for regulations to specify the primary industries or class of primary industries in respect of which the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation is established.

The purpose of the regulations is to amend the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Regulations to substitute references to the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 and the Live-stock Export Charge Act 1997 with references to the Buffalo Slaughter Levy Act 1997 and the Buffalo Export Charge Act 1997

On 18 March 1997, the Government announced its decision to reform the structures of the red meat industry. The enabling legislation, allowing for a different basis of collection of levies and charges for live-stock producers, received Royal Assent on 17 December 1997. The Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 and the Live-stock Export Charge Act 1977 cover buffaloes as well as sheep, lambs and goats. These Acts which impose a levy on owners of buffalo when they are slaughtered and a charge payable by producers on the export of buffaloes, to fund research and disease eradication, will be repealed on the same day as Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Livestock Industry Act 1997 is proclaimed or on 18 September 1998 if not proclaimed earlier. On the same day, the Buffalo Slaughter Levy Act 1997 and the Buffalo Export Charge Act 1997 will commence to continue with the imposition of the same buffalo levy and charge, as the buffalo industry has chosen not to be included in the red meat reforms.

Details of the amending regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for a commencement date on the same day as Part 3 of the Australian Meat & Live-stock Industry Act 1997, which will also be the same day as the new buffalo levies commence.

Regulation 2 provides for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Regulations to be amended by these regulations, which are titled the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Regulations (Amendment).

Regulation 3 substitutes the references in Regulation W to the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964 and the Live-stock Export Charge Act 1977 which are being repealed with references to the Buffalo Slaughter Levy Act 1997 and the Buffalo Export Charge Act 1997 as appropriate.