Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Avocados) Regulations 2017

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 regulations.

Dated 23 February 2017

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

Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

1  Name

  This instrument is the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Avocados) Regulations 2017.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Customs) Charges Regulations 2000

1  Clause 4.4 of Schedule 10

Omit “3 cents”, substitute “2.9 cents”.

2  At the end of Part 4 of Schedule 10

Add:

4.7  PHA charge

 (1) For clause 2 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, PHA charge is imposed on avocados on which charge is imposed by Schedule 10 to the Customs Charges Act.

 (2) For clause 5 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, the rate of the charge for avocados is 0.1 cents per kilogram.

 (3) For clause 10 of Schedule 14 to the Customs Charges Act, PHA charge imposed on avocados is payable by the producer of the avocados.