Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Amendment (Approved Arrangements) Regulations 2018

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 16 August 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

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

Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Regulation 2016

1  Name

  This instrument is the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Amendment (Approved Arrangements) 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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Act 2015.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Regulation 2016

1  Section 6

Insert:

Agriculture Department has the same meaning as in the Biosecurity Act 2015.

automated entry processing system means the system made available by the Agriculture Department for the purpose of enabling persons covered by approved arrangements to give that Department information about goods to be brought or imported into Australian territory.

2  Section 9 (after table item 13)

Insert:

3  At the end of section 10

Add:

Entry of information into automated entry processing system

 (8) For the purposes of section 10 of the Act, a person is not liable to pay the charge prescribed by item 13A of the table in section 9 of this instrument for entering information into the automated entry processing system if the person has paid the charge prescribed by item 13A of the table in section 9 of the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (Customs) Regulation 2016 for entering that information into that system.