Primary Industries (Excise) Levies 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 (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

1  Name

  This instrument is the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 (Excise) Levies 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999

1  Paragraph 4.4(a) of Schedule 15

Omit “3”, substitute “2.9”.

2  At the end of Part 4 of Schedule 15

Add:

4.7  PHA levy

 (1) For clause 2 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, PHA levy is imposed on fresh avocados on which levy is imposed by Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act.

 (2) For clause 6 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of the levy for fresh avocados is 0.1 cents per kilogram.

 (3) For clause 11 of Schedule 27 to the Excise Levies Act, PHA levy imposed on fresh avocados is payable by the producer of the avocados.