Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 26 June 2025
Sam Mostyn AC
Governor‑General
By Her Excellency’s Command
Julie Collins
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 2024
This instrument is the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025.
(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.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | 1 July 2025. | 1 July 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.
This instrument is made under the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Clause 3‑3 of Schedule 1 (table item 1, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (b))
Omit “0.1”, substitute “2.8”.
2 Clause 3‑3 of Schedule 1 (table item 1, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (c))
Omit “2.7 cents”, substitute “1 cent”.
3 Clause 3‑5 of Schedule 1 (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Original provisions
4 Clause 3‑5 of Schedule 1
Before “Clause 3‑1”, insert “(1)”.
5 At the end of clause 3‑5 of Schedule 1
Add:
Amendments made by Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025
(2) Clause 3‑3, as amended by Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025, applies in relation to honey that is sold, or used in the production of other goods, on or after 1 July 2025, whether the honey is produced before, on or after that day.
6 Clause 5‑3 of Schedule 1 (table item 1, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (c))
Omit “1.1”, substitute “11.9”.
7 Clause 6‑3 of Schedule 1 (table item 1, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (c))
Omit “0.03”, substitute “0.1716”.
8 Clause 37‑3 of Schedule 2 (table item 1, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (b))
Omit “0.1”, substitute “0.37”.
9 Clause 37‑3 of Schedule 2 (table item 2, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (b))
Omit “0.1”, substitute “0.37”.
10 Clause 37‑3 of Schedule 2 (table item 3, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (b))
Omit “0.13”, substitute “0.52”.
11 Clause 39‑3 of Schedule 2 (table item 2, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (b))
Omit “2.9”, substitute “2.65”.
12 Clause 39‑3 of Schedule 2 (table item 2, column headed “Rate of levy”, paragraph (d))
Omit “0”, substitute “0.25”.
13 Clause 39‑5 of Schedule 2 (heading)
Repeal the heading, substitute:
Original provisions
14 Clause 39‑5 of Schedule 2
Before “Clause 39‑1”, insert “(1)”.
15 At the end of clause 39‑5 of Schedule 2
Add:
Amendments made by Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025
(2) Clause 39‑3, as amended by Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Almonds, Avocados, Honey, Laying Chickens and Meat Chickens) Regulations 2025, applies in relation to avocados that are sold on or after 1 July 2025, whether the avocados are harvested before, on or after that day.