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Wine Export Charge (Consequential Amendments) Bill
1997
Date Introduced: 19 March 1997
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Primary Industries and Energy
Commencement: At the commencement of the Wine
Export Charge Bill 1997
The amendments proposed by the Bill are consequential to the
passage of the Wine Export Charge Bill 1997. The major
amendments:
- extend voting rights at Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation
annual general meetings to wine export charge payers; and
- require the Commonwealth to refund the Australian Wine and
Brandy Corporation wine export charge and amounts of penalty
received for non payment of charge it has collected on the
corporations behalf
The reader is referred to the Digest for the Wine Export Charge
Bill 1997.
Amendments to the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act
1980
List of winemakers
Item 2 of Schedule 1 substitutes a new
subsection 29V(1) in the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation
Act 1980 (the Principal Act) which requires the Department of
Primary Industries and Energy to provide the Australian Wine and
Brandy Corporation (AWBC) with a list of levy and charge payers as
soon as possible after 30 September following a financial year
ending 30 June. The provision is important because only persons
contained on the list have voting rights at AWBC annual general
meetings. The previous subsection 29V(1) did not provide for charge
payers to be included on the list.
The effect of the amendment proposed by item 3 of
Schedule 1 is to require the Commonwealth to refund the
AWBC charge and amounts of penalty received for non payment of
charge it has collected on the corporations behalf.
Amendments to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges
Collection Act 1991
The effect of item 6 of Schedule 1 is to extend the collection
procedures provided by the Primary Industries Levies and
Charges Collection Act 1991to the charge imposed by the Wine
Export Charge Bill 1997.
Ian Ireland
2 June 1997
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ISSN 1323-9031
Commonwealth of Australia 1997
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