Bill
Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Bill 2023
passed, as at 2024-07-09. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio.
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- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Recorded stages
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- Murray Watt I table addenda to the explanatory memoranda relating to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2023 and the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Bill 2023. The addenda respond to matters raised by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee. Question agreed to. Bills read a second time. Sue Lines The question is that the amendments on sheets 2420, 2421 and 2422, circulated by the opposition, be agreed to. _Opposition's circulated amendments—_ SHEET 2420 Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Bill 2023 (1) Clause 4, page 3 (after line 12), after the definition of _animal_, insert: _Animal Health Australia_ has the same meaning as in the _Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024_. (2) Clause 4, page 3 (after line 22), after the definition of _charge_, insert: _emergency animal biosecurity response deed_ has the same meaning as in the _Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024_. _emergency plant biosecurity response deed_ has the same meaning as in the _Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024_. (3) Clause 4, page 4 (after line 11), after the definition of _plant_, insert: _Plant Health Australia_ has the same meaning as in the _Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024_. (4) Clause 7, page 6 (lines 19 to 22), omit paragraphs (3)(c) and (d), substitute: (c) expenditure on activities, including biosecurity activities, that: (i) are undertaken by, or at the direction of, Animal Health Australia or Plant Health Australia; and (ii) relate to the promotion or maintenance of the health of plants, animals, fungi or algae; (d) expenditure on matters relating to a biosecurity response under: (i) an emergency animal biosecurity response deed; or (ii) an emergency plant biosecurity response deed; (5) Clause 10, page 8 (lines 17 to 20), omit paragraphs (2)(a) and (b), substitute: (a) expenditure on activities, including biosecurity activities, that: (i) are undertaken by, or a — 2024-07-01, Senate: negative, ayes 28, noes 34
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Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-10-18.
The bill would set new rules for how organisations that receive levies and charges from primary industries can spend the money.
Spending would be restricted to specific categories: marketing, research and development, general purposes, Commonwealth costs, refunds, debts, and activities prescribed in the rules.
The rules could require that marketing or R&D money collected for a particular industry sector be spent only for that sector's benefit.
- Consolidates spending requirements from separate legislation into one consistent set for all declared recipient bodies.
- Creates separate spending requirements for statutory recipient bodies.
- Allows the rules to prescribe industry-specific activities on which marketing, R&D, or general amounts may be spent.
- Permits the rules to require that marketing or R&D amounts be earmarked for the benefit of a particular primary industry sector.
Declared recipient bodies that receive levy and charge amounts from primary industries.
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