Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3412

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997.

Dated 13 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Amendment of Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Regulations 1998

  Schedule 1 amends the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Regulations 1998.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 3, after definition of Industry Act

insert

quota year means:

 (a) for high quality beef exports to the European Union — 1 July to 30 June;

 (b) for lamb exports to the United States of America — 22 July to 21 July;

 (c) for sheepmeat and goatmeat exports to the European Union — 1 January to 31 December.

[2] After regulation 3

insert

3A Quota fees

 (1) For paragraph 28 (3) (b) of the Act, the fee payable by the holder of a quota on variation of the quota is 0.8 cents for each additional kilogram of quota entitlement allocated to the licensee in the quota year.

 (2) The fee is payable to:

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia

  Quota Administration and Statistics Unit

  GPO Box 858

  CANBERRA ACT 2601

  fax: 02 6272 4585.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1998 No. 107.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 December 2000.