Laying Chicken Levy Amendment (AAHC) Bill 1996
First Reading
1996
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Laying Chicken Levy Amendment (AAHC) Bill 1996
No. , 1996
(Primary Industries and Energy)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedule(s)
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988
A Bill for an Act to amend the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the
Laying Chicken Levy Amendment (AAHC) Act 1996.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
1 Subsection 3A(1) Insert:
AAHC means the Australian Animal Health Council Limited, A.C.N. 071-890-956.
2 Paragraph 7(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) 0.21 cent or, if another amount, not more than 0.33 cent, is prescribed, the other amount (for the purpose of funding the AAHC).
3 Subsections 9(2A) and (3)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(3) Before making regulations prescribing an amount for the purposes of paragraph 7(b), the Governor-General must take into consideration any recommendations about the amount to be prescribed made to the Minister by:
(a) the Australian Egg Industry Association Inc.; or
(b) if a declaration is in force under subsection (3A), the body specified in the declaration.
The regulations must not prescribe an amount greater than the amount last recommended to the Minister by the Australian Egg Industry Association Inc., or by the body specified in the declaration, as the case requires.
(3A) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare a body specified in the notice to be the body representing the Australian egg industry for the purposes of this section.
4 Section 10
Repeal the section.
5 Application
Section 7 of the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988 as amended by item 2 applies in relation to each laying chicken hatched on or after 1 July 1996.