GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 NO. 158, 1989 

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 NO. 158, 1989 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title etc.  
2. Commencement  
3. Interpretation  
4. Imposition of levy  
5.  
6. Amendment of the Grain Legumes Levy Regulations  
7. Repeal of the Grain Legumes Research Levy Regulations  

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989 - LONG
TITLE

        An Act to amend the Grain Legumes Levy Act 1985, and for
                          related purposes

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Short title etc.

                                          (Assented to 14 December 1989)
  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Grain Legumes Levy Legislation Amendment
Act 1989.
  (2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Grain Legumes Levy Act 1985.*1*
(Minister's second reading speech made in-
          House of Representatives on 1 November 1989
          Senate on 30 November 1989)
*1* No. 106, 1985.

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Commencement

  2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on a day to be fixed by
Proclamation.
  (2) If this Act does not commence under subsection (1) within the period of
6 months beginning on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent, it
commences on the first day after the end of that period.

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Interpretation

  3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:
  (a) by inserting after paragraph (a) of the definition of "leviable grain
legumes" in subsection (1) the following paragraph:
  "(ab) peanuts; or";
  (b) by inserting in subsection (1) the following definition:
  "'peanuts' means peanuts in shells;".

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Imposition of levy

  4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph
(3) (a) the following paragraph:
  "(ab) in relation to peanuts - the date of commencement of the Grain Legumes
Levy Amendment Act 1989; and".

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  5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted:
Rates of levy
  "7.(1) The rate of levy in respect of peanuts is $2.00 per tonne or such
other rate (not being a rate higher than $5.00 per tonne) as is from time to
time prescribed for the purposes of this subsection.
  "(2) The rate of levy in respect of leviable grain legumes (other than
peanuts) is $1.25 per tonne or such other rate (not being a rate higher than
$5.00 per tonne) as is from time to time prescribed for the purposes of this
subsection.
  "(3) Regulations made under subsection (1) or (2) may prescribe different
rate of levy in respect of different kinds of leviable grain legumes specified
in the regulations.".

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Amendment of the Grain Legumes Levy Regulations

  6. (1) Regulation 4 of the Grain Legumes Levy Regulations is amended by
omitting all the words after "leguminous plants," and substituting the
following:
  "are prescribed, namely, seeds of the plant species Vicia faba, Cicer
arietinum, Vigna radiata, Cajanus cajan and Vigna mungo ".
  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) prevents the amendment or repeal, by a
regulation made under the Principal Act, of the Regulations amended by that
subsection.

GRAIN LEGUMES LEVY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 158 of 1989
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Repeal of the Grain Legumes Research Levy Regulations

  7. The Grain Legumes Research Levy Regulations are repealed.