DAIRYING INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND PROMOTION LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1978

No. 139 of 1978

An Act relating to the collection of levy under the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1978.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1978 comes into operation.

Validation of past collections of levy

3. Where, before the commencement of this Act, a person paid to the Commonwealth an amount that, if the amendments of the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972 made by the Dairying Research and Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1978 had come into operation on the day on which the Dairying Research Levy Act 1972 came into operation, would have been payable by that person by way of levy imposed by the first-mentioned Act or by way of an amount equal to an amount of such levy payable under section 6 of the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1972 but would not otherwise have been so payable by that person, the amount so paid shall be deemed for all purposes to have been an amount so payable by that person.