Bill
Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Dairy Cattle Export Charge) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-09-17. Agriculture, Water and the Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-08-24
- second reading — 2020-08-24
- third reading — 2020-08-24
- introduced — 2020-08-25
- second reading — 2020-08-25
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-09-03
- third reading — 2020-09-03
- passed — 2020-09-03
- royal assent — 2020-09-17
Divisions
- Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment (Dairy Cattle Export Charge) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Against live export — 2020-09-03, Senate: negative, ayes 7, noes 27
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2020-09-03.184.1) to agree with the bill's main idea. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to read the bill for a [second time](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/), which means they can now discuss it in more detail. ### What is the bill's main idea? According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd103), the purpose of the bill is to: * *provide for the imposition of an export charge on the export of dairy cattle and* * *amend the rate provision to provide for two different rates of charges—a per head charge on dairy cattle and a per kilogram charge on cattle other than dairy cattle.* — 2020-09-03, Senate: affirmative, ayes 30, noes 4
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-05-13.
The bill would create a new statutory export charge on dairy cattle to fund research, development and marketing for the sector.
It would amend the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999 to allow a per head charge on dairy cattle exports, with a separate per kilogram rate for other cattle.
The charge would be set at $6 per head of dairy cattle exported, replacing a voluntary charge that was under-collected.
- Imposes a statutory export charge on dairy cattle.
- Sets the charge rate on a per head basis for dairy cattle.
- Enables full funding of the Dairy Cattle Export Program.
Exporters of dairy cattle and the dairy cattle export sector.
Sources
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