Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export Licensing) Amendment (Approved Arrangements) Regulation 2016

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 28 September 2016

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

Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export Licensing) Regulations 1998

1  Name

  This is the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry (Export Licensing) Amendment (Approved Arrangements) Regulation 2016.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry (Export Licensing) Regulations 1998

1  Subregulation 3(1)

Insert:

approved arrangement has the same meaning as in the Export Control (Animals) Order 2004.

2  Paragraph 14(4)(a)

Before “an operations”, insert “if there is no approved arrangement for the applicant—”.

3  Paragraph 16(1)(j)

After “application”, insert “(if required)”.

4  Regulation 17

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

17  Approval of operations and governance manual

  If a person is required under paragraph 14(4)(a) to submit an operations and governance manual with an application for a live‑stock export licence, the grant of the licence to the person is approval of the operations and governance manual.

5  Subregulation 18(1)

Omit “A live‑stock export licence”, substitute “If there is no approved arrangement for the holder of a live‑stock export licence, the live‑stock export licence”.

6  Subregulation 18(2)

Repeal the subregulation.

7  Paragraph 19(1)(b)

Repeal the paragraph.