The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Bill 2001

No. , 2001

(Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)

A Bill for an Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

ISBN: 0642 46815X

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A Bill for an Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001.

2 Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Validation of levy (1) Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237) is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would have been if Schedule 15 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999 as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into force on 31 December 1999.

(2) Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 238) is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would have been if Schedule 22 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991 as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into force on 31 December 1999.

(3) Subsection 48(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (which, among other matters, invalidates regulations imposing retrospective liabilities on certain persons) is taken not to have applied to Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237) or to Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 238).