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CONTENTS
Passage History
Purpose
Background
Main Provisions
Contact Officer and Copyright Details
National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy
Amendment Bill 1998
Date Introduced: 3 December 1998
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Commencement: 1 July 1999
The major
amendments proposed by the Bill are definitional and ensure
consistency between the proposed Primary Industries (Customs)
Levies Act 1998 and the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy
Act 1998.
This Bill forms part of a package of five Bills
designed to consolidate 40 levy and charge imposition Acts into two
principal Acts. The Bills in this package are the Primary
Industries (Excise) Levies Bill 1998, the Primary Industries
(Customs) Charges Bill 1998, the Primary Industries Levies and
Charges (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1998, the National Residue
Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment Bill 1998 and the Bill.
The reader is referred to the 'Background' to
the Digest for the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment
Bill 1998.
Amendments to the National Residue
Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998
The effect of the amendments proposed by
items 1-3 of Schedule 1 of the
Bill is to ensure consistency between the definitions of 'cattle',
'dairy cattle', 'horticultural products', 'lamb' and 'sheep' used
in the Act and the proposed Primary Industries (Customs) Levies Act
1998.
Ian Ireland
20 January 1999
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