{"id":"C2004A01938","name":"Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1978","slug":"dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"139 of 1978","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":6568,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A01938-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1978","content":"DAIRYING INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND PROMOTION LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1978\n\nNo. 139 of 1978\n\nAn Act relating to the collection of levy under the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972.\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1978.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1978 comes into operation.\n\nValidation of past collections of levy\n\n3. Where, before the commencement of this Act, a person paid to the Commonwealth an amount that, if the amendments of the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972 made by the Dairying Research and Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1978 had come into operation on the day on which the Dairying Research Levy Act 1972 came into operation, would have been payable by that person by way of levy imposed by the first-mentioned Act or by way of an amount equal to an amount of such levy payable under section 6 of the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1972 but would not otherwise have been so payable by that person, the amount so paid shall be deemed for all purposes to have been an amount so payable by that person.\n\n![](image.001.png)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2484},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This remains a narrow, technical validation Act with limited scope focused solely on deeming past levy payments valid. It has not expanded beyond its original purpose of fixing a transitional technicality regarding collections made between 1972 and 1978."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision containing complex nested conditional logic spanning multiple legislative cross-references","Hypothetical subjunctive construction ('if... had come into operation') creating counterfactual scenarios across time periods","References to three separate pieces of legislation (1972 Levy Act, 1978 Amendment Act, and 1972 Collection Act) within one sentence","Absence of definitions or interpretation section to clarify ambiguous scope"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this law does**\n\nThis law fixes a technical legal problem with dairy industry levy payments made before 1978.\n\nWhen the government changed the dairy levy rules in 1978, some farmers and processors had already paid money to the Commonwealth. These payments would have been valid under the new 1978 rules—if those rules had existed at the time of payment—but they weren't technically valid under the old 1972 rules.\n\n**Who it affects**\n\nDairy industry participants who paid research and promotion levies between 1972 and 1978.\n\n**Why it matters**\n\nThis Act legally validates those early payments. It deems (treats as valid) any amount paid that would have been payable under the 1978 amendments, had they been in force from the start. This prevents the government from having to refund money that was collected in good faith during the transition period."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978","history":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978/history","analysis":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/dairying-industry-research-and-promotion-levy-collection-act-1978/documents"}}