EXPORT INSPECTION (QUANTITY CHARGE) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 395

EXPORT INSPECTION (QUANTITY CHARGE) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 395

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 395

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Act 1985

Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 10 of the Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Act 1985 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act, and, in particular, exempting a class or classes of a prescribed commodity from charge, and prescribing different rates of charge in respect of different classes of prescribed commodity.

The Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulation (the Regulations) prescribe quantity charges payable by persons in whose name an export permit is issued under the Export Control Act 1982 by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.

The purpose of the Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations (Amendment) is to lower the rates of quantity charge for grain shipped in bulk (other than in a container unit) from 38 cents per tonne to 22.3 cents per tonne and for grain shipped in bulk (other than in a container unit) which is prepared under a certification assurance arrangement from 9 cents per tonne to 5.1 cents per tonne.

The Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations! (Amendment) amends the Regulations as follows:

Regulation 1 - Amendment

Subregulation 1.1 provides that the Regulations are amended as set out in the Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Regulations (Amendment).

Regulation 2 - Schedule (Rates of Charge)

Subregulation 2.1 omits "38 cents" from Item 2, Column 3 of the Schedule and substitutes "22.3 cents". The quantity charge for grain shipped for export in bulk (other than in a container system unit) which is not prepared for export under a certification assurance arrangement is set at 22.3 cents per tonne.

Subregulation 2.2 omits "9 cents" from Item 3, Column 3 of the Schedule and substitutes "5.1 cents". The quantity charge for grain shipped for, export in bulk (other than in a container system unit) which is prepared for export under a certification assurance arrangement is set at 5.1 cents per tonne.