Bill
Primary Industries (Excise) Levies 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 change how rural research and development levies are set by removing fixed maximum rates from the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.
Future levy rate changes would be made through regulations alone, without amending the Act, and regulations could not set a rate above what the relevant industry body recommends.
The bill also makes technical amendments to remove obsolete provisions and improve consistency between schedules.
- Removes product-specific maximum levy rates for research and development and marketing levies from the Act's schedules.
- Specifies that regulations cannot set a levy rate higher than the rate recommended by the industry body.
- Includes technical amendments to remove provisions no longer needed and improve schedule consistency.
Primary producers, rural research and development corporations, and industry bodies that pay or manage levies.
Sources
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