HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 26 of 1991]
(#DATE 31:08:1983)
- Reprinted as at 31 August 1983
*1* The Honey Levy Collection Act 1962 as shown in this reprint comprises Act
No. 108, 1962 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
(The citation "Honey Levy Collection Act 1962" is provided for by the
Amendments Incorporation Act 1905 and the Acts Citation Act 1976.)
Table of Acts
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Application,
saving
Number Date of or
transitional
Act and year Date of
Assent commencement
provisions
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Honey Levy
Collection Act
1962 108, 1962 1 4 Dec
1962 14 Dec 1962
Statute Law
Revision
(Decimal
Currency) Act
1966 93, 1966 29 Oct 1966 1 Dec 1966 -
Statute Law
(Miscellaneous
Amendments) Act
(No. 2) 1982 80, 1982 22 Sept
1982 Part XLIII (ss.
144-147) 20 Oct
1982(a) -
Statute Law
(Miscellaneous
Provisions) Act
(No. 1) 1983 39, 1983 20 June
1983 S. 3: 18 July
1983(b) S. 7 (5)
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(a) The Honey Levy Collection Act 1962 was amended by Part XLIII (sections
144-147) only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 2) 1982,
sub-section 2 (16) of which provides that Part XLIII shall come into operation
on the twenty-eighth day after Royal Assent.
(b) The Honey Levy Collection Act 1962 was amended by section 3 only of the
Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1983, sub-section 2 (1) of
which provides as follows:
"(1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the
twenty-eighth day after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent."
Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. =
repealed rs. = repealed and substituted
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Provision affected How affected
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S. 3 . . . . . . . . am. No. 80, 1982
S. 5 . . . . . . . . am. No. 93, 1966
S. 8 . . . . . . . . am. No. 80, 1982; No. 39, 1983
Ss. 10, 11 . . . . . am. No. 93, 1966
S. 12A . . . . . . . ad. No. 80, 1982
S. 13 . . . . . . . . am. No. 93, 1966
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. List of Honey Dealers
5. Honey dealers to notify Secretary of commencement of business, &c.
6. Due date of payment
7. Liability of selling agent
8. Penalty for non-payment
9. Recovery of levy
10. Offences
11. Access to books, &c.
12. Evidence of contents of List of Honey Dealers
12A. Review of decisions
13. Regulations
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - LONG TITLE
SECT
An Act relating to the Collection of Honey Levy
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 1
Short title
SECT
1. This Act may be cited as the Honey Levy Collection Act 1962.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 2
Commencement
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 3
Interpretation
SECT
3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
"honey dealer" means a person who carries on the business of buying honey
from producers for resale otherwise than by retail, or the business of selling
honey on behalf of producers otherwise than by retail, or both those
businesses;
"levy" means levy imposed by the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962 or by the Honey
Levy Act (No.2) 1962;
"listed honey dealer" means a person whose name is included in the list of
Honey Dealers;
"producer", in relation to honey, means the person who owned the honey
immediately upon its removal from the hive;
"the List of Honey Dealers" means the List of Honey Dealers maintained under
this Act;
"the Secretary" means the Secretary to the Department.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 4
List of Honey Dealers
SECT
4. (1) The Secretary shall cause to be maintained a list to be known as the
List of Honey Dealers.
(2) The Secretary shall-
(a) cause to be entered in the List of Honey Dealers the name and business
address of every person as to whom the Secretary is satisfied that he is, or
is about to become, a honey dealer;
(b) cause the removal from the list of the name and business address of any
person as to whom the Secretary is satisfied that he is not, and is not about
to become, a honey dealer;
(c) cause to be made such alterations as appear to him to be necessary to
the addresses appearing in the list; and
(d) make such arrangements for publishing the list, and alterations to the
list, as he thinks necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 5
Honey dealers to notify Secretary of commencement of business, &c.
SECT
5. (1) A person who is, on the date of commencement of this Act, a honey
dealer or becomes, after that date, a honey dealer, shall, within one month
after that date or after he becomes a honey dealer, as the case may be, give
notice in writing to the Secretary of that fact.
Penalty: Three hundred dollars.
(2) Where a person whose name is included in the List of Honey Dealers
ceases to be a honey dealer, he shall forthwith give notice in writing to the
Secretary that he has so ceased.
Penalty: One hundred dollars.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 6
Due date of payment
SECT
6. The amount of levy on any honey is due for payment upon the expiration of
twenty-eight days after the last day of the month in which-
(a) in the case of levy imposed by the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962-the sale
by reason of which the levy was imposed took place; and
(b) in the case of levy imposed by the Honey Levy Act (No. 2) 1962-the
honey was used in the production of other goods.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 7
Liability of selling agent
SECT
7. (1) For better securing the payment of levy, a listed honey dealer who
sells honey on behalf of the producer of the honey is liable to pay to the
Commonwealth the amount of any levy that has become due for payment by the
producer by reason of the sale but has not been paid, and may recover from the
producer, by set-off or otherwise, any amount paid by, or recovered from, him
in respect of that liability.
(2) A listed honey dealer may, for the purpose of meeting any liability
under the last preceding sub-section by reason of the sale of any honey,
retain so much of any proceeds of the sale received by him as does not exceed
the amount of the liability.
(3) Where, under this section, an amount in respect of levy payable by a
producer is paid to the Commonwealth by, or recovered by the Commonwealth
from, another person, the producer is, to the extent of the amount so paid or
recovered, discharged from his liability to pay the levy to the Commonwealth.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 8
Penalty for non-payment
SECT
8. (1) Where the liability of a person to pay any levy is not discharged on
or before the date when the levy is due for payment, there is payable to the
Commonwealth by way of penalty, in addition to the amount of the levy, an
amount calculated at the rate of 20% per annum upon the amount of the levy
from time to time remaining unpaid, to be computed from the date on which the
levy became due for payment.
(2) A penalty under this section is payable-
(a) where the penalty relates to levy in respect of honey sold by a listed
honey dealer on behalf of the producer-by that dealer; and
(b) in any other case-by the person liable to pay the levy.
(3) The Minister or, subject to sub-section (4), a person authorized in
writing by the Minister for the purposes of this section may, in a particular
case, for a reason that the Minister or the authorized person, as the case may
be, in his discretion thinks sufficient, remit the whole or a part of an
amount payable under this section.
(4) A remission granted under sub-section (3) by a person authorized by the
Minister for the purposes of this section shall not exceed $100.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 9
Recovery of levy
SECT
9. (1) The following amounts shall be deemed to be debts due to the
Commonwealth:
(a) an amount of levy that is due for payment;
(b) an amount payable under sub-section (1) of section seven of this Act;
and
(c) an amount payable by way of penalty under the last preceding section.
(2) In proceedings for the recovery of an amount referred to in the last
preceding sub-section, a statement or averment in the complaint, claim or
declaration of the plaintiff is evidence of the matter so stated or averred.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 10
Offences
SECT
10. (1) A person shall not-
(a) fail or neglect duly to furnish a return or information that he is
required under the regulations to furnish;
(b) furnish, in pursuance of the regulations, or give, under section five
of this Act, a return or information that is false in a material particular;
or
(c) falsely represent himself to be a person whose name is, or was at any
time, included in the List of Honey Dealers.
Penalty: Three hundred dollars.
(2) A prosecution for an offence against this section may be commenced at
any time.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 11
Access to books, &c.
SECT
11. (1) For the purposes of this Act, an officer authorized in writing by
the Minister to exercise powers under this section shall at all times have
full and free access to all buildings and places and all books, documents and
other papers and may take extracts from and make copies of any books,
documents or papers.
(2) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, obstruct or hinder an
officer acting in pursuance of an authority under this section.
Penalty: One hundred dollars.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 12
Evidence of contents of List of Honey Dealers
SECT
12. In all proceedings-
(a) a certificate under the hand of the Secretary, or of a person
authorized by the Secretary to give certificates under this section,
certifying to the inclusion or non-inclusion of a particular name, or name and
address, in the List of Honey Dealers as at a specified date is evidence of
the matter certified; and
(b) a document purporting to be such a certificate shall, unless the
contrary is proved, be taken to be such a certificate and to have been duly
given.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 12A
Review of decisions
SECT
12A. (1) Applications may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for
review of decisions made by the Minister or an authorized person for the
purposes of sub-section 8 (3).
(2) Where a person is given notice in writing of a decision made for the
purposes of sub-section 8 (3), the notice shall include a statement to the
effect that, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975,
application may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for review of
the decision to which the notice relates by or on behalf of the person or
persons whose interests are affected by the decision.
(3) Any failure to comply with the requirements of sub-section (2) in
relation to a decision does not affect the validity of the decision.
HONEY LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1962 - SECT 13
Regulations
SECT
13. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act or for facilitating the collection or recovery of
amounts of levy or other moneys payable to the Commonwealth under this Act
and, in particular-
(a) providing for the manner of payment of levy and other moneys payable to
the Commonwealth under this Act;
(b) requiring persons to furnish returns or information to the Secretary;
and
(c) prescribing penalties not exceeding Two hundred dollars for offences
against the regulations.