Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES LEVIES AND CHARGES COLLECTION ACT 1991 - SECT 27

             (1)  An authorised person may publish:

                     (a)  the name and address of a levy payer or charge payer or an intermediary in relation to a producer; or

                     (b)  information relating to amounts of levy or charge received or receivable by the Commonwealth in any period including such information relating to a particular State or region;

to any of the following:

                     (c)  a body that receives money under a distribution Act;

                     (d)  an industry body that is representative of producers of collection products or is representative of intermediaries in relation to producers of collection products;

                     (e)  a person to whom the Secretary has granted access to such information.

             (2)  Except for the purposes of regulations made under the repealed Wheat Marketing Act 1989 in relation to the issue to wheat growers of statements of equity in the Wheat Industry Fund established by that Act, nothing in subsection (1) permits the publication of information in a manner that enables an amount of levy or charge paid or payable to be identified with a person (including a deceased person).

             (3)  An authorised person may provide the following information to an eligible recipient:

                     (a)  the name, address and ABN of any person who has paid, or is liable to pay, wool levy;

                     (b)  details of the amount of wool levy that the person has paid, or is liable to pay.

          (3A)  An authorised person may provide the following information to the industry services body:

                     (a)  the name, address, contact details and ABN of any person who has paid, or is liable to pay, dairy levy;

                     (b)  details relating to the amount of dairy levy that the person has paid, or is liable to pay.

             (4)  In this section:

"ABN" has the meaning given by section 41 of the A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999 .

"dairy levy" means levy that:

                     (a)  is or has been collected under this Act; and

                     (b)  is prescribed by regulations under this Act.

"eligible recipient" means:

                     (a)  the research body referred to in Division 7 of Part 2 of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000 ; or

                     (b)  any other person (other than the Commonwealth) who is a party to a contract referred to in section 31 of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000 .

"industry services body" has the same meaning as in the Dairy Produce Act 1986 .

"wool levy" has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000 .