Statutory Rules 1990 No. 611
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Egg Industry Research and Development Council Regulations
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.
Dated 19 February 1990.
BILL HAYDEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN KERIN
Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy
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Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Egg Industry Research and Development Council Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations commence on 2 July 1990.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
“Council” means the Egg Industry Research and Development Council specified in regulation 4;
“egg” means the egg of a domesticated fowl;
“egg industry” means the industry concerned with the production and processing of eggs and the distribution and sale of eggs and processed egg products;
“Fund” means the Egg Industry R & D Fund referred to in regulation 5;
“processed egg product” means a product in which eggs are the major ingredient;
“the Act” means the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.
Establishment of the Egg Industry Council
4. An R & D Council to be known as the Egg Industry Research and Development Council is declared to be established in respect of the egg industry.
Egg Industry Fund
5. For the purposes of section 107 of the Act, the R & D Fund established in respect of the Egg Industry R & D Council is to be known as the Egg Industry R & D Fund.
Levy attached to the Fund
6. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 5 (1) (a) of the Act, the levy mentioned in paragraph 7 (a) of the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988 is attached to the Fund.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph 5 (3) (a) of the Act, the whole of the levy is the research component of the levy.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph 5 (3) (b) of the Act, the egg industry is the primary industry to which the levy relates.
Gross value of production of eggs
7. (1) The Minister is to determine the gross value of the production of eggs for a financial year (in this regulation called “relevant year”) by calculating that value in accordance with the formula:
where:
A is the estimated value of eggs produced in the financial year ending 1 year before the start of the relevant year; and
B is the estimated value of eggs produced in the financial year immediately before the relevant year; and
C is the estimated value of eggs to be produced in the relevant year.
(2) A reference to the value of eggs produced or to be produced in a financial year is a reference to the production figure supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics that shows:
(a) the estimated gross value of eggs produced; or
(b) the estimated gross value of eggs to be produced;
by the egg industry in that financial year.
NOTE
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 February 1990.