Cotton Research and Development Corporation Amendment (Seed Cotton) Regulations 2017

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 regulations.

Dated 23 March 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Barnaby Joyce

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Cotton Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1990

1  Name

  This instrument is the Cotton Research and Development Corporation Amendment (Seed Cotton) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Cotton Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1990

1  Regulation 3 (definition of Act)

Omit “and Energy”.

2  Regulation 5

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

5  Levies attached to the Corporation

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act, the following levies are declared to be attached to the Corporation:

 (a) the levy imposed on leviable cotton by clause 2 of Schedule 5 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999;

 (b) the levy imposed on seed cotton by clause 10.2 of Part 10 of Schedule 27 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999;

 (c) the charge imposed on seed cotton by clause 6.2 of Part 6 of Schedule 14 to the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000.

 (2) For the purposes of paragraph 5(3)(a) of the Act, the whole of the levies mentioned in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c) are declared to be the research component of the levies.

 (3) For the purposes of paragraph 5(3)(b) of the Act, the cotton industry is declared to be the primary industry to which the levies relate.