Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 2632

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000.

Dated 21 October 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

JUDITH TROETH

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on 24 October 2003.

3 Amendment of Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Regulations 2001

Schedule 1 amends the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Regulations 2001.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 1.3, note

omit

[2] After regulation 1.3

insert

1.4 Horticultural product

For paragraph (f) of the definition of horticultural product in section 4 of the Act, tobacco leaf is prescribed.

Note Part 2 is reserved.

[3] Regulation 3.1

substitute

3.1 Gross value of production

(1) This regulation applies to the following sectors of the horticultural industry:

(a) dried fruit;

(b) tobacco leaf.

(2) For subsection 16 (4) of the Act, the Secretary must determine the amount of gross value of production of each sector of the horticultural industry mentioned in subregulation (1), for a financial year (the relevant financial year), by using:

where:

A is the estimated value of the relevant horticultural product to be produced by the sector in the relevant financial year.

B is the value of the relevant horticultural product produced by the sector in the financial year immediately before the relevant financial year (the previous financial year).

C is the value of the relevant horticultural product produced by the sector in the financial year immediately before the previous financial year.

(3) In subregulation (2), a reference to the value of the relevant horticultural product produced, or the estimated value of the relevant horticultural product to be produced, in a financial year is a reference to the production figure supplied by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics that shows:

(a) the gross value of the relevant horticultural product produced by the sector in that financial year; or

(b) the estimated gross value of the relevant horticultural product to be produced by the sector in that financial year.