Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Sweet Potatoes) Regulations 2024

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 June 2024

David Hurley

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Murray Watt

Murray Watt

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

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 (Sweet Potatoes) Regulations 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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  Clause 30.2 of Schedule 15

Repeal the clause, substitute:

30.2  Rates of levy—marketing component

  For the purposes of subclause 4(1) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the rate of levy on sweet potatoes is nil.

2  Subclause 30.3(3) of Schedule 15

Repeal the subclause (not including the note), substitute:

 (3) For subclause (2), the amount that would have been paid for the sweet potatoes is:

 (a) if unprocessed sweet potatoes of the same kind are sold on the same day—the market price for those sweet potatoes on that day; or

 (b) in any other case—the value of the sweet potatoes immediately before processing.

 (4) For paragraph (3)(b), the value of the sweet potatoes before processing must be substantiated by the producer’s financial records in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

3  Clause 30.4 of Schedule 15

Repeal the clause, substitute:

30.4  What is the eligible industry body for sweet potatoes

  For subclauses 6(7), (8) and (10) of Schedule 15 to the Excise Levies Act, the eligible industry body for sweet potatoes is the Australian Sweetpotato Growers Inc. (ABN 82 577 850 667).

4  Subclause 30.5(4) of Schedule 15

Omit “30.2(3)”, substitute “30.3(3)”.