Bill
Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Bill 2023
passed, as at 2024-07-09. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-10-18
- second reading — 2023-10-18
- second reading — 2023-11-14
- other — 2023-11-14
- second reading — 2023-11-15
- second reading — 2023-11-15
- other — 2023-11-15
- committee — 2023-11-15
- third reading — 2023-11-15
- introduced — 2023-11-16
- second reading — 2023-11-16
- second reading — 2024-07-01
- third reading — 2024-07-01
- passed — 2024-07-01
- royal assent — 2024-07-09
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-10-18.
This bill is part of a package that would modernise how agricultural levies, customs charges and service levies are imposed.
The three Imposition Bills would let the government set and collect these charges through regulations instead of separate Acts, replacing five existing laws.
The package would allow new levies on services such as bee pollination and would require industry consultation before changing levy rates.
- The bill would allow regulations to re-establish existing excise levies and customs charges on primary produce.
- It would let regulations impose levies on goods used for animal, plant, fungus or algae care, including the horse disease response levy.
- It would enable levies on services that help produce primary industry products, such as bee pollination.
- It would create a uniform framework for all three Imposition Bills covering definitions, exemptions and rates.
- It would require consultation with affected industries before making regulations that change levy rates or create new levies.
- It would allow an instrument to set rules for conducting polls, such as those for dairy and wool industries.
The agricultural levy system affects farmers, producers, processors and exporters in agricultural, fisheries and forestry industries.
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