Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment (Dairy Cattle) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 12 November 2020

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

David Littleproud

Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

1  Name

  This instrument is the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment (Dairy Cattle) Regulations 2020.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991

1  Clause 2 of Schedule 5 (at the end of the definition of chargeable cattle)

Add:

Note: Charge imposed on the export of cattle includes charge imposed on the export of dairy cattle.

2  Clause 2 of Schedule 5

Insert:

dairy cattle has the meaning given in clause 1 of Schedule 2 to the Customs Charges Act.

3  Clause 9 of Schedule 5

Repeal the clause, substitute:

9  What must be included in a return

  In addition to the information required by regulation 10, a return for a month must state, in respect of the month:

 (a) how many cattle (other than dairy cattle) were exported; and

 (b) how many dairy cattle were exported; and

 (c) the total live‑weight, in kilograms, of cattle (other than dairy cattle) exported; and

 (d) the rates of charge payable on:

 (i) the cattle (other than dairy cattle); and

 (ii) the dairy cattle; and

 (e) the total amount of charge payable on:

 (i) the cattle (other than dairy cattle); and

 (ii) the dairy cattle; and

 (f) the total amount of charge paid on:

 (i) the cattle (other than dairy cattle); and

 (ii) the dairy cattle.

Note: For offences in relation to returns, see section 24 of the Collection Act.

4  Paragraph 10(1)(b) of Schedule 5

After “cattle”, insert “(other than dairy cattle)”.

5  After paragraph 10(1)(b) of Schedule 5

Insert:

 (ba) for the dairy cattle exported:

 (i) the total numbers of dairy cattle; and

 (ii) the rate of charge payable on the dairy cattle; and

 (iii) the total amount of charge for the dairy cattle; and

6  Paragraph 10(1)(d)

Omit “cattle”, insert “chargeable cattle”.