LAYING CHICKEN LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1989 NO. 126, 1989 

LAYING CHICKEN LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1989 NO. 126, 1989 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title etc.  
2. Commencement  
3.  
4. Regulations  
5.  

LAYING CHICKEN LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1989 No. 126 of 1989 - LONG TITLE

       An Act to amend the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988

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Short title etc.

                                       (Assented to 7 November 1989)
  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Laying Chicken Levy Amendment Act 1989.
  (2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Laying Chicken Levy Act 1988.*1*
(Minister's second reading speech made in -
          House of Representatives on 24 May 1989
          Senate on 26 October 1989)
*1* No. 16, 1988.

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Commencement

  2. This Act commences:
  (a)  if paragraph (b) does not apply-at the commencement of the Exotic
Animal Disease Control Act 1989; or
  (b)  if that Act commences before the commencement of the Principal
Act-immediately after the commencement of the Principal Act.

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  3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted:
Rate of levy
  "7. The rate of levy is an amount in respect of each laying chicken equal to
the sum of:
  (a)  such amount, not exceeding 10 cents as is prescribed for the purposes
of this paragraph; and
  (b)  such amount, not exceeding 0.25 cent, as is prescribed for the purposes
of this paragraph.".

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Regulations

  4. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsections (2) and
(3) and substituting the following subsections:
  "(2) Regulations shall not be made prescribing an amount for the purposes of
paragraph 7 (a) unless the Australian Council of Egg Producers has made a
recommendation to the Minister with respect to the amount to be prescribed for
the purposes of that paragraph.
  "(3) Regulations shall not be made prescribing an amount for the purposes of
paragraph 7 (b) unless the members of the Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness
Consultative Council (being the Council established by the Exotic Animal
Disease Control Act 1989) nominated by the National Farmers' Federation have
made a recommendation to the Minister with respect to the amount to be
prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph.
  "(4) Regulations shall not be made for the purposes of paragraph 7 (a) or
        (b) prescribing an amount that is greater than the amount recommended.".

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  5. The Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following section:
Cessation of operation of certain provisions
  "10. Paragraph 7 (b) and subsection 9 (3), unless sooner repealed, shall
cease to have effect at the end of 30 June 1995.".