National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment Bill 1998
First Reading

1998

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment Bill 1998

No. , 1998

(Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)

A Bill for an Act to amend the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998, and for related purposes

ISBN: 0642 379211

Contents

A Bill for an Act to amend the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment Act 1998.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the commencement of section 1 of the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 - Amendment of the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998

1 Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 1 (definitions of cattle, dairy cattle, licensed dairy farmer and lot-fed cattle)

Omit "the Cattle Transactions Levy Act 1997", substitute "Schedule 3 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998".

2 Subparagraph 2(2)(d)(iii) of Schedule 1

Omit "the Beef Production Levy Act 1990", substitute "Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998".

3 Clause 1 of Schedule 2

Insert:

leviable amount, in relation to a levy year, means:

(a) $50; or

(b) if, before the commencement of the levy year, another amount is prescribed in relation to that year, that prescribed amount.

4 After subclause 5(1) of Schedule 2

Insert:

(1A) If, in a levy year:

(a) leviable coarse grain is delivered to a particular person by producers of leviable coarse grain; and

(b) apart from this subclause, the total amount of National Residue Survey Levy imposed by this Schedule on the grain would be less than the leviable amount;

National Residue Survey Levy is not imposed by this Schedule on the grain.

5 After subclause 5(2) of Schedule 2

Insert:

(2A) If, in a levy year:

(a) a producer processes leviable coarse grain that the producer has produced; and

(b) paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in respect of the grain; and

(c) apart from this subclause, the total amount of National Residue Survey Levy imposed by this Schedule on the grain would be less than the leviable amount;

National Residue Survey Levy is not imposed by this Schedule on the grain.

6 Clause 2 of Schedule 3

Omit "and before 1 July 2000" (wherever occurring).

7 Paragraph 2(2)(d) of Schedule 7

Omit "or paragraph 4(2)(d) of the", substitute ", paragraph 2(2)(c) of Schedule 14 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998 or paragraph 4(2)(d) of the repealed".

8 Clause 1 of Schedule 9 (definition of horticultural products)

Omit "the Horticultural Levy Act 1987", substitute "Schedule 15 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998".

9 Subclause 1(1) of Schedule 15 (definitions of lamb, sheep and slaughter)

Omit "the Live-stock Transactions Levy Act 1997", substitute "Schedule 18 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1998".