Bill
Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Bill 2013
passed, as at 2013-12-13. Agriculture portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-20
- second reading — 2013-11-20
- other — 2013-12-04
- second reading — 2013-12-04
- second reading — 2013-12-05
- second reading — 2013-12-05
- other — 2013-12-05
- third reading — 2013-12-05
- introduced — 2013-12-05
- second reading — 2013-12-05
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- third reading — 2013-12-12
- passed — 2013-12-12
- royal assent — 2013-12-13
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-20.
The bill would remove the maximum rates set in the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999 for research and development and marketing charges.
It would allow the government to set new charge rates through regulations alone, without needing to amend the Act, and would require the Minister to consult industry bodies before setting rates.
The bill would also prevent regulations from setting a charge rate above what the relevant industry body recommends, which the government says safeguards against excessive increases.
- Removes product-specific maximum rates for research and development and marketing charges from the Act.
- Allows charge rates to be changed by amending regulations only, not the Act.
- Strengthens consultation requirements so the Minister must consider industry body recommendations.
- Restricts regulations from setting a rate higher than the industry body's recommended rate.
Primary producers and industry bodies that pay or propose research and development and marketing charges, and the 15 rural research and development corporations.
Sources
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