Primary Industries Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Amendment (Honey) Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 54, 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 Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998

1  Name

  This is the Primary Industries Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Amendment (Honey) Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 July 2015.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 Levies and Charges (National Residue Survey Levies) Regulations 1998

1  After regulation 78

Insert:

78A  Exemption from NRS excise levy on honey

 (1) For subclause 2(5) of Schedule 7 to the NRS Excise Levy Act, a producer of honey is exempt from levy imposed by clause 2 of that Schedule on honey sold in a financial year by the producer by prescribed sale if the total weight of:

 (a) that honey; and

 (b) any honey used by the producer in that year in the production of other goods;

is more than 600 kilograms but not more than 1 500 kilograms.

Note: For other exemptions from this levy, see subclauses 2(2) to (4) of Schedule 7 to the NRS Excise Levy Act.

 (2) For subclause 3(5) of Schedule 7 to the NRS Excise Levy Act, a producer of honey is exempt from levy imposed by clause 3 of that Schedule on honey used by the producer in a financial year in the production of other goods if the total weight of:

 (a) that honey; and

 (b) any honey sold in that year by the producer by prescribed sale;

is more than 600 kilograms but not more than 1 500 kilograms.

Note: For other exemptions from this levy, see subclauses 3(2) to (4) of Schedule 7 to the NRS Excise Levy Act.