1998-1999-2000-2001
   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia
   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
   Presented and read a first time
   Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation
   Bill 2001
   No. , 2001
   (Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
   A Bill for an Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix
   retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried
   vine fruits, and for related purposes
   ISBN: 0642 46815X

   Contents

   A Bill for an Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix
   retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (excise) levy on dried
   vine fruits, and for related purposes

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary
   Industry (Excise) Levy) Validation Act 2001.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      3 Validation of levy

   (1) Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies
   Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237)
   is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would have been if
   Schedule 15 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999
   as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into force on 31 December 1999.

   (2) Item 2 in Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges
   Collection Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules
   2000 No. 238) is taken to have been at all times as valid as it would
   have been if Schedule 22 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges
   Collection Regulations 1991 as in force on 1 July 2000 had come into
   force on 31 December 1999.

   (3) Subsection 48(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (which, among
   other matters, invalidates regulations imposing retrospective
   liabilities on certain persons) is taken not to have applied to
   Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment
   Regulations 2000 (No. 3) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 237) or to
   Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection
   Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 2) (being Statutory Rules 2000
   No. 238).