Bill
Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17. Agriculture and Water Resources portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture and Water Resources
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-03-03
- second reading — 2016-03-03
- second reading — 2016-03-16
- second reading — 2016-03-17
- second reading — 2016-03-17
- third reading — 2016-03-17
- introduced — 2016-03-18
- second reading — 2016-03-18
- other — 2016-04-17
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 2016-03-03.
This bill changes the law that collects levies and charges from primary industries.
It would let the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources share levy payer details with the rural research and development corporations (RDCs) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The bill also sets rules for how this information can be used, including a ban on using it for agri-political purposes.
- The bill amends sections 27 and 29 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 and adds new sections 27A and 27B.
- It allows the department to give levy payer information to the thirteen other RDCs, not just the wool and dairy ones.
- It allows the department to give levy payer information to the ABS.
- It specifies the purposes for which levy payer information can be used, such as developing registers and making public de-identified statistics.
- It prohibits secondary disclosure of register information except with the Secretary's written permission.
Levy payers in primary industries, the rural research and development corporations, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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