DRIED VINE FRUITS EQUALIZATION LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1985 NO. 32, 1985 

DRIED VINE FRUITS EQUALIZATION LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1985 NO. 32, 1985 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title, &c.  
2. Rate of levy  

Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Amendment Act 1985 No. 32 of 1985 - LONG
TITLE

        An Act to amend the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Act 1978

Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Amendment Act 1985 No. 32 of 1985 - SECT
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Short title, &c.

                                 (Assented to 22 May 1985)
                       (Date of commencement 19 June 1985)
  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy
Amendment Act 1985.
  (2) The Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Act 1978*1* is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
*1* No. 194, 1978.
(Minister's second reading speech made in-
    House of Representatives on 17 April 1985;
    Senate on 9 May 1985)

Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Levy Amendment Act 1985 No. 32 of 1985 - SECT
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Rate of levy

  2. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the
following sub-sections:
  "(2) The rate of levy fixed by the regulations referred to in sub-section
(1) in respect of dried fruit of a specified kind produced during a season,
being a season commencing on or after 1 January 1986, shall be a rate that the
Minister considers, after consultation with the Corporation to ascertain its
estimate of- 
  (a)  the amount per tonne that is likely to be the average export return for
dried fruit of that kind produced during that season;
  (b)  the volume of dried fruit of that kind that is likely to be produced
during that season; and
  (c)  the proportion of that volume that is likely to be exported and the
proportion of that volume that is likely to be used for human consumption in
Australia,
will be such that it is unlikely that the amount specified in the rate of
equalization payments in respect of dried fruit of that kind produced in that
season will exceed the amount that is the prescribed percentage for fruit of
that kind for that season of the amount specified in the average export return
for dried fruit of that kind produced in that season.
  "(3) For the purposes of sub-section (2), the prescribed percentage for
currants for a season is-
  (a)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1986-40.4%;
  (b)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1987-34.1%;
  (c)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1988-27.8%;
  (d)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1989-21.5%; and
  (e)  in the case of a later season-15%.

  "(4) For the purposes of sub-section (2), the prescribed percentage for
sultanas for a season is-
  (a)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1986-32.4%;
  (b)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1987-28%;
  (c)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1988-23.6%;
  (d)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1989-19.2%; and
  (e)  in the case of a later season-15%.

  "(5) For the purposes of sub-section (2), the prescribed percentage for
raisins for a season is-
  (a)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1986-79.4%;
  (b)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1987-63.3%;
  (c)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1988-47.2%;
  (d)  in the case of the season commencing on 1 January 1989-31.1%; and
  (e)  in the case of a later season-15%.".