Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Honey) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 56, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 30 April 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Barnaby Joyce

Minister for Agriculture

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

1  Name

  This is the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Honey) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2015.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

1  Before clause 1 of Schedule 9

Insert:

Part 1—Product charge

2  Clause 2 of Schedule 9

Repeal the clause, substitute:

Part 2—Special purpose charges

2  PHA charge

 (1) For clause 2 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, PHA charge is imposed on honey on which charge is imposed by Schedule 9 to the Customs Charges Act.

 (2) For clause 5 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of PHA charge on honey is 0.1 of a cent per kilogram of honey.

 (3) For clause 10 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, PHA charge on honey is payable by the producer of the honey.

3  EPPR charge

 (1) For clause 2 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, EPPR charge is imposed on honey on which charge is imposed by Schedule 9 to the Customs Charges Act.

 (2) For clause 5 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of EPPR charge on honey is 2.9 cents per kilogram of honey.

 (3) For clause 10 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, EPPR charge on honey is payable by the producer of the honey.

Note: In relation to EPPR charge, see the Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002.