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Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment (Returns) Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 21 June 2018

Peter Cosgrove

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

David Littleproud

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Main amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

Part 2—Contingent amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

1  Name

  This instrument is the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment (Returns) Regulations 2018.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The day after this instrument is registered.

23 June 2018

2.  Schedule 1, Part 1

The day after this instrument is registered.

23 June 2018

3.  Schedule 1, Part 2

The later of:

(a) immediately after the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 1; and

(b) at the same time as the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Act 2018 commences.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

1 September 2018

(paragraph (b) applies)

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Part 1Main amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

1  After subregulation 10(4)

Insert:

 (4A) A return for a collection product must include the information mentioned in subregulation (4B) if:

 (a) there is published on the Department’s website:

 (i) a notice that a register of levy payers or charge payers is being kept for the product by an eligible recipient within the meaning of subsection 27A(2) of the Collection Act (other than the Australian Bureau of Statistics); and

 (ii) the day on which the notice was published; and

 (b) the return is not required to be lodged before 28 days after the day mentioned in subparagraph (a)(ii).

 (4B) For the purposes of subregulation (4A), the information is:

 (a) the name, address, contact details, ABN (if any) and ACN (if any) of each person who has paid, or is liable to pay, levy or charge for the product for the period to which the return relates; and

 (b) the amount of levy or charge each person mentioned in paragraph (a) has paid, or is liable to pay, for the product for that period.

Part 2Contingent amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

2  At the end of regulation 10

Add:

Note: A return in relation to a collection product may also be required to contain details determined by the Secretary under section 32 of the Collection Act relating to the production and processing of the collection product.