{"id":"C2024A00060","name":"Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024","slug":"primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"60 of 2024","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":436402,"registerId":"C2024A00060-fast-fetch-1775953610432","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nPrimary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024\n\nNo. 60, 2024\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAn Act to repeal various Acts and to deal with consequential amendments and transitional matters arising from the enactment of various Acts relating to primary industries, and for related purposes\n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Short title\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Schedules\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nAustralian Animal Health Council (Live‑stock Industries) Funding Act 1996\n\nAustralian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997\n\nDairy Adjustment Levy Termination Act 2008\n\nDairy Industry Adjustment Act 2000\n\nDairy Produce Act 1986\n\nEgg Industry Service Provision Act 2002\n\nEgg Industry Service Provision (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2002\n\nForestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007\n\nHorse Disease Response Levy Act 2011\n\nHorse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011\n\nHorticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000\n\nNational Cattle Disease Eradication Account Act 1991\n\nNational Residue Survey Administration Act 1992\n\nNational Residue Survey (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992\n\nNational Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998\n\nNational Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998\n\nNational Residue Survey Levies Regulations (Validation and Commencement of Amendments) Act 1999\n\nPig Industry (Transitional Provisions) Act 1986\n\nPlant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002\n\nPrimary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999\n\nPrimary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999\n\nPrimary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991\n\nSugar Research and Development Services Act 2013\n\nSchedule 2—Consequential amendments\n\nPart 1—Main amendments\n\nBiosecurity Act 2015\n\nFisheries Administration Act 1991\n\nFreedom of Information Act 1982\n\nHorticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Repeals and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000\n\nNatural Heritage Trust of Australia Act 1997\n\nPig Industry Act 2001\n\nPrimary Industries Research and Development Act 1989\n\nRenewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000\n\nSugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2013\n\nWine Australia Act 2013\n\nWool Services Privatisation Act 2000\n\nPart 2—Other amendments\n\nExport Control Act 2020\n\nInspector‑General of Live Animal Exports Act 2019\n\nSchedule 3—Application and transitional provisions—operation of new law\n\nSchedule 4—Application, saving and transitional provisions—operation of old law\n\nPart 1—Definitions\n\nPart 2—Old levies or charges\n\nPart 3—National Residue Survey Special Account\n\nPart 4—Some matters under the old Collection Acts\n\nPart 5—Other provisions\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.002.png)\n\n \n\n \n\nPrimary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024\n\nNo. 60, 2024\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAn Act to repeal various Acts and to deal with consequential amendments and transitional matters arising from the enactment of various Acts relating to primary industries, and for related purposes\n\n[Assented to 9 July 2024]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\n1  Short title\n\n  This Act is the Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 9 July 2024\n- 2. Schedule 1 1 January 2025. 1 January 2025\n- 3. Schedule 2, items 1 to 122 1 January 2025. 1 January 2025\n- 4. Schedule 2, item 123 1 January 2025.However, the provision does not commence at all if items 16 and 17 of Schedule 1 to the Inspector‑General of Live Animal Exports Amendment (Animal Welfare) Act 2023 commence before 1 January 2025. Never commenced\n- 5. Schedule 3, item 1 The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. 10 July 2024\n- 6. Schedule 3, items 2 to 14 1 January 2025. 1 January 2025\n- 7. Schedule 4 1 January 2025. 1 January 2025\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.\n\n3  Schedules\n\n  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\n \n\nAustralian Animal Health Council (Live‑stock Industries) Funding Act 1996\n\n1  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nAustralian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997\n\n2  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nDairy Adjustment Levy Termination Act 2008\n\n3  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nDairy Industry Adjustment Act 2000\n\n4  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nDairy Produce Act 1986\n\n5  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nEgg Industry Service Provision Act 2002\n\n6  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nEgg Industry Service Provision (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2002\n\n7  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nForestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007\n\n8  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nHorse Disease Response Levy Act 2011\n\n9  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nHorse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011\n\n10  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nHorticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000\n\n11  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Cattle Disease Eradication Account Act 1991\n\n12  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Residue Survey Administration Act 1992\n\n13  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Residue Survey (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992\n\n14  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998\n\n15  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998\n\n16  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nNational Residue Survey Levies Regulations (Validation and Commencement of Amendments) Act 1999\n\n17  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nPig Industry (Transitional Provisions) Act 1986\n\n18  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nPlant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002\n\n19  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nPrimary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999\n\n20  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nPrimary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999\n\n21  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nPrimary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991\n\n22  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nSugar Research and Development Services Act 2013\n\n23  The whole of the Act\n\nRepeal the Act.\n\nSchedule 2—Consequential amendments\n\nPart 1—Main amendments\n\nBiosecurity Act 2015\n\n1  Subsection 9(1) (definition of Agriculture Minister)\n\nOmit “Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991”, substitute “Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024”.\n\nFisheries Administration Act 1991\n\n2  Subsection 94E(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of deductible component)\n\nOmit “subparagraph 30A(1)(a)(i) or (ii) of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989 to an R & D Corporation (within the meaning of that Act) established in respect of the fishing industry”, substitute “paragraph 36(1)(a) or (b) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation”.\n\nFreedom of Information Act 1982\n\n3  Part III of Schedule 2\n\nOmit:\n\n| Dairy Produce Act 1986 |\n| --- |\n\n\nHorticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Repeals and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000\n\n4  Subsection 4(1) (definition of industry services body)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nindustry services body means the body that was the industry services body under the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000 on 31 December 2024.\n\nNatural Heritage Trust of Australia Act 1997\n\n5  Section 54\n\nInsert:\n\nhorticultural product means:\n\n (a) fruits, including processed fruits; and\n\n (b) vegetables, including:\n\n (i) processed vegetables; and\n\n (ii) mushrooms and other edible fungi; and\n\n (iii) processed mushrooms and other processed edible fungi; and\n\n (c) nuts, including processed nuts; and\n\n (d) nursery products, including:\n\n (i) trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, corms and tubers; and\n\n (ii) propagating material and plant tissue cultures, grown for ornamental purposes or for producing fruits, vegetables, nuts or cut flowers and foliage; and\n\n (e) cut flowers and foliage, including processed cut flowers and foliage; and\n\n (f) products prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.\n\n6  Section 54 (definition of horticulture)\n\nOmit “(within the meaning of the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000)”.\n\nPig Industry Act 2001\n\n7  Section 7\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of eligible body;\n\n (b) definition of funding contract.\n\n8  Section 7 (definition of industry services body)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nindustry services body means the body that was the industry services body under this Act on 31 December 2024.\n\n9  Section 7\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of Levies Collection Act;\n\n (b) definition of marketing payments;\n\n (c) definition of matching payments;\n\n (d) definition of Presiding Officer;\n\n (e) definition of R&D payments.\n\n10  Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 3\n\nRepeal the Divisions.\n\n11  Subsection 21(1)\n\nOmit “section 9”, substitute “former section 9”.\n\nPrimary Industries Research and Development Act 1989\n\n12  After section 2\n\nInsert:\n\n2A  Simplified outline of this Act\n\nEstablishment of research and development corporations\n\nThe Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation is established and the regulations may establish, or continue in existence, other research and development corporations.\n\nThose corporations have various functions and powers. They must have R&D plans and annual operational plans.\n\nFinance\n\nThe Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 provides for payments to those corporations. Under that Act:\n\n (a) the Commonwealth must pay to those corporations amounts connected with various levies and charges collected under rules made under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024; and\n\n (b) those corporations must spend the payments on various activities, including research and development activities and marketing activities for the benefit of primary industries; and\n\n (c) the Commonwealth must also make matching payments to those corporations, based on amounts of expenditure on research and development activities or certain other activities by those corporations and on gross value of production amounts; and\n\n (d) those corporations must spend the matching payments on various activities, including research and development activities for the benefit of primary industries.\n\nDirectors\n\nThis Act provides for directors of those corporations and for the appointment process for those directors, including the use of Selection Committees.\n\n13  Paragraphs 3(a) and (b)\n\nOmit “funding and administration”, substitute “undertaking”.\n\n14  Subsection 4(1) (definition of Collection Act)\n\nRepeal the definition.\n\n15  Subsection 4(1)\n\nInsert:\n\ndesignated primary industry sector in relation to an R&D Corporation: see section 5.\n\n16  Subsection 4(1) (definition of eligible levy payer)\n\nRepeal the definition.\n\n17  Subsection 4(1) (definition of funding agreement)\n\nOmit “subsection 33(4)”, substitute “section 42 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024”.\n\n18  Subsection 4(1)\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of levy;\n\n (b) definition of list of levy payers.\n\n19  Subsection 4(1) (definition of marketing activities)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nmarketing activities, in relation to an R&D Corporation, means the following:\n\n (a) the marketing, advertising or promotion of:\n\n (i) a designated primary industry sector in relation to that Corporation; or\n\n (ii) goods that are the produce, or that are derived from the produce, of a designated primary industry sector in relation to that Corporation;\n\n (b) activities incidental to such marketing, advertising or promotion.\n\n20  Subsection 4(1)\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of marketing component;\n\n (b) definition of order;\n\n (c) definition of prescribed;\n\n (d) definition of R&D activity.\n\n21  Subsection 4(1) (paragraph (a) of the definition of R&D Corporation)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (a) a research and development corporation established under regulations, or continued in existence under regulations, made for the purposes of section 8; or\n\n22  Subsection 4(1)\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of R&D project;\n\n (b) definition of refund;\n\n (c) definition of regulations.\n\n23  Subsection 4(1) (definition of research and development)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nresearch and development: see section 5.\n\n24  Subsection 4(1)\n\nInsert:\n\nresearch and development activity: see section 5.\n\n25  Subsection 4(1)\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of research component;\n\n (b) definition of RIR&D Corporation;\n\n (c) definition of separately levied fishery;\n\n (d) definition of State Research Committee.\n\n26  Subsection 4(3)\n\nRepeal the subsection.\n\n27  Sections 5 to 6\n\nRepeal the sections, substitute:\n\n5  Expressions defined in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024\n\n  For the purposes of this Act, work out what are the following under the definitions in Part 1 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024:\n\n (a) designated primary industry sector in relation to an R&D Corporation;\n\n (b) research and development;\n\n (c) research and development activity.\n\nNote: The definitions in that Act apply, in part, in relation to a statutory recipient body, which includes an R&D Corporation.\n\n28  Section 8\n\nRepeal the section, substitute:\n\n8  Establishment of research and development corporations\n\n  The regulations may:\n\n (a) establish a research and development corporation with the name prescribed by the regulations; or\n\n (b) continue in existence a research and development corporation prescribed by the regulations.\n\n29  Subsection 9(1)\n\nOmit “(1)”.\n\n30  Subsection 9(2)\n\nRepeal the subsection.\n\n31  Paragraph 11(a)\n\nOmit “in relation to the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which it was established”, substitute “for each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n32  Paragraphs 11(c) and (d)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n33  Paragraph 11(da)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established, of R&D activities”, substitute “each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation, of research and development activities”.\n\n34  Paragraph 11(e)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established”, substitute “each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n35  Paragraph 11(ea)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (ea) to carry out marketing activities under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 for the benefit of designated primary industry sectors in relation to the Corporation; and\n\n36  Paragraph 11(eb)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established”, substitute “a designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n37  Paragraphs 12(1)(a) and (b)\n\nOmit “R&D”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n38  Section 13 (heading)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n39  Paragraph 13(1)(a)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (a) research and development activities;\n\n40  Paragraph 13(2)(c)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n41  Section 14 (heading)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n42  Paragraph 14(1)(a)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (a) research and development activities;\n\n43  Paragraph 15(1)(a)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established”, substitute “a designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n44  Paragraph 15(1)(b)\n\nOmit “primary industry or class of primary industries”, substitute “sector”.\n\n45  Paragraph 25(2)(a)\n\nOmit “of R&D”, substitute “of research and development activities”.\n\n46  Subparagraphs 25(2)(c)(i) and (ii)\n\nRepeal the subparagraphs, substitute:\n\n (i) the total amounts likely to be spent by the Corporation in respect of each broad grouping of research and development activities the Corporation proposes to fund during the financial year; and\n\n (ii) the total of all other amounts likely to be spent by the Corporation during the financial year; and\n\n47  Subparagraph 25(2)(c)(iv)\n\nOmit “section 30, 30A or 30B”, substitute “the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024”.\n\n48  Subsection 25(3)\n\nOmit “R&D or marketing activities that an R&D Corporation proposes to fund includes a reference to R&D”, substitute “research and development activities or marketing activities that an R&D Corporation proposes to fund includes a reference to research and development activities”.\n\n49  Subparagraph 28(a)(i)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n50  Subparagraph 28(a)(iib)\n\nOmit “on the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established”, substitute “on each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n51  Sub‑subparagraph 29(b)(iii)(C)\n\nRepeal the sub‑subparagraph.\n\n52  Sections 30 to 32\n\nRepeal the sections.\n\n53  Subsection 33(1)\n\nOmit “An”, substitute “Subject to this section, an”.\n\n54  Paragraph 33(1)(a)\n\nOmit “R&D activities” (wherever occurring), substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n55  Paragraph 33(1)(a)\n\nOmit “when payments are made”.\n\n56  Paragraphs 33(1)(ca) to (da)\n\nRepeal the paragraphs, substitute:\n\n (d) in payment to the Commonwealth of amounts payable under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024; and\n\n57  After subsection 33(1)\n\nInsert:\n\n (1AA) Money paid to an R&D Corporation under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 may be spent by the R&D Corporation only in accordance with that Act.\n\n58  Subsection 33(3)\n\nOmit “After 30 June 2015, an”, substitute “An”.\n\n59  Subsections 33(4) and (5)\n\nRepeal the subsections.\n\n60  Section 33A\n\nRepeal the section.\n\n61  Subsection 33B(2)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n62  Sections 33C to 39\n\nRepeal the sections.\n\n63  Subsection 40(1)\n\nOmit “(1)”.\n\n64  Subsection 40(2)\n\nRepeal the subsection.\n\n65  Section 56\n\nRepeal the section, substitute:\n\n56  Application of Division\n\n  This Division applies to an R&D Corporation if:\n\n (a) there are one or more levies or charges imposed by provisions prescribed by rules made under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 for the purposes of paragraph 15(1)(a) of that Act in relation to the Corporation; and\n\n (b) the regulations declare that this Division applies to the Corporation.\n\n66  Section 57 (heading)\n\nRepeal the heading, substitute:\n\n57  List of levy or charge payers\n\n67  Subsection 57(1)\n\nOmit “a levy that is attached to the Corporation”, substitute “any of the levies or charges covered by paragraph 56(a)”.\n\n68  Paragraph 59(1)(b)\n\nOmit “of levy payers”, substitute “referred to in section 57”.\n\n69  Subsection 60(1)\n\nOmit “(1)”.\n\n70  Subsection 60(1)\n\nOmit “eligible levy payers”, substitute “those included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57”.\n\n71  Subparagraph 60(1)(b)(ii)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation was established”, substitute “each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n72  Subparagraph 60(1)(d)(i)\n\nOmit “making of regulations prescribing an amount of levy in respect of a levy attached to the Corporation or declaring the research component, or marketing component, of such a levy”, substitute “amount of any of the levies or charges covered by paragraph 56(a)”.\n\n73  Subparagraph 60(1)(d)(ii)\n\nOmit “making of such regulations”, substitute “amount of any of the levies or charges covered by paragraph 56(a)”.\n\n74  Paragraph 61(a)\n\nOmit “by an eligible levy payer of the Corporation at an annual general meeting”, substitute “at an annual general meeting by a person included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57”.\n\n75  Paragraph 61(b)\n\nOmit “Corporation’s eligible levy payers”, substitute “persons included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57”.\n\n76  Paragraph 61(c)\n\nOmit “eligible levy payers of the Corporation”, substitute “persons included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57”.\n\n77  Paragraph 61(e)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (e) a method:\n\n (i) of determining the number of votes that a person included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57 who is entitled to vote at an annual general meeting may cast when voting at such a meeting; and\n\n (ii) that has regard to the amount of any of the levies or charges covered by paragraph 56(a) for which the person became liable to pay during, or within 3 months after the end of, the financial year immediately preceding the meeting;\n\n78  Paragraph 61(f)\n\nOmit “levy for which an eligible levy payer became liable”, substitute “any of the levies or charges covered by paragraph 56(a) for which a person included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57 became liable to pay”.\n\n79  Paragraph 62(1)(b)\n\nOmit “the eligible levy payers of the Corporation who are included in the list of levy payers”, substitute “the persons included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57”.\n\n80  Subsection 62(3)\n\nRepeal the subsection, substitute:\n\n (3) A person included in the list prepared by the Corporation under section 57 for the financial year in which an annual general meeting of the Corporation is held is entitled to vote upon any matter to be determined at the meeting.\n\n81  Section 65\n\nRepeal the section, substitute:\n\n65  Scope of this Division\n\n  This Division applies in relation to a director of an R&D Corporation, other than the Executive Director.\n\nNote: See Division 9 for provisions applying to the Executive Director.\n\n82  Paragraph 131(2)(a)\n\nOmit “the particular primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the R&D Corporation or R&D Council is established”, substitute “each designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n83  Subsection 142(2)\n\nOmit “R&D activities”, substitute “research and development activities”.\n\n84  Subsection 145(1)\n\nOmit “under section 8 declaring the establishment of the Corporation”, substitute “for the purposes of section 8”.\n\n85  Paragraph 146(b)\n\nOmit “the primary industry or class of primary industries in respect of which the Corporation is established”, substitute “a designated primary industry sector in relation to the Corporation”.\n\n86  Section 147\n\nOmit “under section 8 declaring the establishment of the Corporation”, substitute “for the purposes of section 8”.\n\n87  Subsection 149(2)\n\nRepeal the subsection, substitute:\n\n (2) Before regulations are made for the purposes of section 8 establishing a research and development corporation, the Minister must have taken into consideration any relevant recommendation made to the Minister by any of the organisations that, in the Minister’s opinion, will represent any of the designated primary industry sectors in relation to that corporation upon the establishment of that corporation.\n\n88  Section 150\n\nRepeal the section.\n\nRenewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000\n\n89  Subsection 5(1) (definition of Agriculture Department)\n\nOmit “Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991”, substitute “Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024”.\n\nSugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2013\n\n90  Item 1 of Schedule 2 (definition of industry services body)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nindustry services body means the body that was the industry services body under the Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013 on 31 December 2024.\n\nWine Australia Act 2013\n\n91  Subsection 4(1)\n\nInsert:\n\ndesignated primary industry sector in relation to the Authority: see section 4AA.\n\n92  Subsection 4(1) (definition of funding agreement)\n\nOmit “subsection 35(1C)”, substitute “section 42 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024”.\n\n93  Subsection 4(1) (definition of general component)\n\nRepeal the definition.\n\n94  Subsection 4(1) (definition of grape or wine research and development)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\ngrape or wine research and development means research and development for a designated primary industry sector in relation to the Authority.\n\n95  Subsection 4(1) (definition of grape or wine research and development activity)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\ngrape or wine research and development activity means a research and development activity for a designated primary industry sector in relation to the Authority.\n\n96  Subsection 4(1) (definition of grapes research levy)\n\nOmit “Schedule 13 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999”, substitute “a prescribed provision of regulations made under the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024”.\n\n97  Subsection 4(1)\n\nInsert:\n\nresearch and development: see section 4AA.\n\nresearch and development activity: see section 4AA.\n\n98  Subsection 4(1) (definition of research component)\n\nRepeal the definition.\n\n99  Subsection 4(1) (definition of wine export charge)\n\nOmit “Schedule 13 to the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999”, substitute “a prescribed provision of regulations made under the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 2024”.\n\n100  Subsection 4(1) (definition of wine grapes levy)\n\nOmit “Schedule 26 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999”, substitute “a prescribed provision of regulations made under the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024”.\n\n101  After section 4\n\nInsert:\n\n4AA  Expressions defined in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024\n\n  For the purposes of this Act, work out what are the following under the definitions in Part 1 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024:\n\n (a) designated primary industry sector in relation to the Authority;\n\n (b) research and development;\n\n (c) research and development activity.\n\nNote: The definitions in that Act apply, in part, in relation to a statutory recipient body, which includes the Authority.\n\n102  Sections 32 to 33\n\nRepeal the sections.\n\n103  Subsection 35(1)\n\nOmit “The”, substitute “Subject to this section, the”.\n\n104  Paragraph 35(1)(ab)\n\nRepeal the paragraph.\n\n105  Paragraph 35(1)(ac)\n\nOmit “when the relevant payments are made”.\n\n106  Paragraph 35(1)(ad)\n\nRepeal the paragraph, substitute:\n\n (ad) in payment to the Commonwealth of amounts payable under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024; and\n\n107  Subsection 35(1A)\n\nRepeal the subsection, substitute:\n\n (1A) Money paid to the Authority under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 may be spent by the Authority only in accordance with that Act.\n\n108  Subsection 35(1B)\n\nOmit “After 30 June 2015, the”, substitute “The”.\n\n109  Subsections 35(1C) and (1D)\n\nRepeal the subsections.\n\n110  Before subsection 35(2)\n\nInsert:\n\nNo limit on investments\n\n111  Section 36\n\nRepeal the section.\n\n112  Division 4 of Part VIA (heading)\n\nRepeal the heading, substitute:\n\nDivision 4—Other matters\n\nWool Services Privatisation Act 2000\n\n113  Section 7\n\nRepeal the following definitions:\n\n (a) definition of research body;\n\n (b) definition of wool levy.\n\n114  Division 7 of Part 2\n\nRepeal the Division.\n\n115  Section 33A\n\nRepeal the section.\n\n116  Application provision—fisheries amendment\n\nThe amendment of the Fisheries Administration Act 1991 made by this Part applies in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 and each later financial year.\n\n117  Application provision—Selection Committees\n\nThe amendment of paragraph 131(2)(a) of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989 made by this Part applies in relation to a nomination made on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n118  Transitional provision—Wine Australia\n\nFor the purposes of the operation of section 29V of the Wine Australia Act 2013 in relation to 30 September 2025:\n\n (a) a reference to wine grapes levy in that section is taken to be a reference to levy imposed by Schedule 26 to the former Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999; and\n\n (b) a reference to wine export charge in that section is taken to be a reference to charge imposed by Schedule 13 to the former Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.\n\nPart 2—Other amendments\n\nExport Control Act 2020\n\n119  Subparagraph 372(2)(a)(ii)\n\nAfter “the”, insert “repealed”.\n\n120  Subparagraph 372(2)(a)(va)\n\nAfter “the”, insert “repealed”.\n\n121  Before subparagraph 372(2)(a)(vi)\n\nInsert:\n\n (vb) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024;\n\n122  Subparagraph 372(2)(e)(vi)\n\nAfter “the”, insert “repealed”.\n\nInspector‑General of Live Animal Exports Act 2019\n\n123  Section 5 (definition of live‑stock)\n\nRepeal the definition, substitute:\n\nlive‑stock means any of the following:\n\n (a) cattle, sheep, goats, deer, buffalo or camelids;\n\n (b) any other animal prescribed by rules made for the purposes of this definition;\n\n (c) the young of an animal mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).\n\nSchedule 3—Application and transitional provisions—operation of new law\n\n \n\n1  Application provisions—consultation on rates of levies and charges\n\nLevies\n\n(1) Subsection 27(2) of the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024 does not apply to the first set of regulations, made under that Act, setting the rate of a levy in relation to a particular product or particular goods if, immediately before the commencement of that subsection, a levy under an old levy Act was imposed in relation to that product or those goods.\n\nCharges\n\n(2) Subsection 24(2) of the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 2024 does not apply to the first set of regulations, made under that Act, setting the rate of a charge in relation to a particular product or particular goods if, immediately before the commencement of that subsection, a charge or levy under an old charge/levy Act was imposed in relation to that product or those goods.\n\nFurther rule for wool levy or wool export charge\n\n(3) If in 2024 a poll was conducted in accordance with section 32 of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000, then:\n\n (a) subsection 27(2) of the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024 does not apply to any regulations made under that Act amending the rate of levy on wool as a result of that poll; and\n\n (b) subsection 24(2) of the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 2024 does not apply to any regulations made under that Act amending the rate of charge on wool as a result of that poll.\n\nDefinitions\n\n(4) An old levy Act is:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999; or\n\n (b) the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998; or\n\n (c) the Horse Disease Response Levy Act 2011.\n\n(5) An old charge/levy Act is:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999; or\n\n (b) the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998.\n\n2  Transitional provisions—exemptions from levies and charges\n\n(1) For the purposes of a provision of regulations under the new Charges Act that deals with exemptions from a charge on an animal product (within the meaning of that Act) or a plant product (within the meaning of that Act):\n\n (a) a reference in that provision to levy imposed on that product under a provision of regulations under the new Levies Act is taken to include a reference to levy imposed on that product under the old Levies Act or regulations under the old Levies Act; and\n\n (b) a reference in that provision to charge being previously imposed on that product includes a reference to charge being previously imposed on that product under the old Charges Act or regulations under the old Charges Act.\n\n(2) For the purposes of a provision of regulations under the new Levies Act that deals with exemptions from a levy on an animal product (within the meaning of that Act) or a plant product (within the meaning of that Act):\n\n (a) a reference in that provision to levy being previously imposed on that product includes a reference to levy being previously imposed on that product under the old Levies Act or regulations under the old Levies Act; and\n\n (b) a reference in that provision to charge being previously imposed on that product includes a reference to charge being previously imposed on that product under the old Charges Act or regulations under the old Charges Act.\n\n(3) In this item:\n\nnew Charges Act means the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 2022.\n\nnew Levies Act means the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024.\n\nold Charges Act means the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999.\n\nold Levies Act means the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.\n\n3  Application provision—liability of collection agents\n\nSubsections 10(5) and (9) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 apply in relation to agreements entered into before, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n4  Transitional provisions—exemptions from giving returns for usual return periods\n\n(1) If:\n\n (a) under regulations made under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, a person had an exemption from lodging returns, in relation to an animal product or plant product, for usual return periods in the last levy year for that product, being a financial year or calendar year, that began before the commencement of this item; and\n\n (b) the person lodged a return for that financial year or calendar year in accordance with those regulations;\n\nthe exemption is taken to also apply for the next financial year or calendar year, as the case may be, for the purposes of rules made under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\n(2) Subitem (1) does not prevent the exemption from being revoked in accordance with rules made under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\n(3) In this item:\n\nanimal product has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\nlevy year has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nplant product has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\nquarter means a period of 3 months beginning on 1 July, 1 October, 1 January or 1 April.\n\nusual return period means a quarter or a calendar month.\n\n5  Application and transitional provisions—matching payments\n\nMatching payments to bodies other than the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\n\n(1) Section 23 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 applies in relation to a relevant financial year that is the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025 or a later financial year.\n\n(2) For the purposes of the operation of that section, subsection 25(3) of that Act applies whether or not any of the last 3 financial years ends before or after the commencement of this item.\n\nMatching payments to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation\n\n(3) Sections 26 and 27 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 apply in relation to a relevant financial year that is the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025 or a later financial year.\n\n(4) For the purposes of the operation of those sections, subsections 29(3), 30(3), 31(3) and 32(3) of that Act apply whether or not any of the last 3 financial years ends before or after the commencement of this item.\n\nCarry‑over amounts\n\n(5) For the purposes of the operation of sections 23 and 24 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 in relation to a recipient body and the relevant financial year that is the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025:\n\n (a) paragraph 24(1)(b) of that Act does not apply; but\n\n (b) the recipient body’s qualifying expenditure amount for that financial year is taken to include the amount specified in, or worked out in accordance with, an instrument made under subitem (6) in relation to that body.\n\n(6) The Minister may make a notifiable instrument for the purposes of paragraph (5)(b).\n\n(7) If, in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024, a body is required to pay an amount to the Commonwealth under an old repayment provision, the Commonwealth may set off the whole or a part of that amount against a payment the Commonwealth must make under section 23 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 to the body in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025.\n\nDefinitions\n\n(8) In this item:\n\nold repayment provision means the following:\n\n (a) subsection 66(3) of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (b) subsection 6(4) of the Dairy Produce Act 1986, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (c) subsection 8(3) of the Egg Industry Service Provision Act 2002, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (d) subsection 9(4) of the Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (e) subsection 16(7A) of the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (f) subsection 10(8) of the Pig Industry Act 2001, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (g) subsection 32(1A) of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (h) subsection 7(4) of the Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (i) subsection 32B(2) of the Wine Australia Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (j) subsection 31(7) of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nrecipient body has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\n6  Application provision—fishing levy\n\nSubsection 36(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 applies in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 and each later financial year.\n\n7  Application provision—report about National Residue Survey Special Account\n\nFor the purposes of the operation of section 67 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 in relation to the first financial year ending after the day on which this item commences, the report for that year must also include the details referred to in paragraphs 10(a) and (b) of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this item) in relation to that year.\n\n8  Application provision—use or disclosure of protected information\n\n(1) Subsections 45(1) and (2) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 apply in relation to information obtained or generated on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n(2) Subsections 81(1) and (2) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 apply in relation to information obtained or generated on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n9  Transitional provisions—old levies and charge information\n\n(1) On and after the commencement of this item, the following information is taken to be relevant levy/charge information for the purposes of the operation of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024:\n\n (a) information obtained by a person under a former Collection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement;\n\n (b) information obtained or generated by a person in the course of or for the purposes of:\n\n (i) administering, or monitoring compliance with, a former Collection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement; or\n\n (ii) assisting another person to administer, or monitor compliance with, a former Collection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement.\n\n(2) Subsection 28(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if the following were purposes covered by that subsection:\n\n (a) administering, or monitoring compliance with, a former Collection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement;\n\n (b) assisting another person to administer, or monitor compliance with, a former Collection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement.\n\n(3) Subsection 30(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 does not apply to the use or disclosure of relevant levy/charge information if that information:\n\n (a) is of a kind covered by paragraph 27A(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 (the old Act), as in force immediately before the commencement of this item; and\n\n (b) was obtained for the purpose of it being given to an eligible recipient (within the meaning of section 27A of the old Act) under subsection 27A(1) of the old Act for a purpose covered by subsection 27B(1), (2) or (3) of the old Act.\n\n(4) In this item:\n\nformer Collection Act means:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item; or\n\n (b) the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nNote: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.\n\n10  Remission of penalty\n\n(1) Subsection 9(5) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if it extended to a penalty under subsection 15(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, or section 7 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, before, on or after that commencement.\n\n(2) Subsection 11(5) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if it extended to a penalty under subsection 15(2), (3) or (4) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 before, on or after that commencement.\n\n(3) A decision of the Secretary of the Department on or after the commencement of this item to refuse to remit a penalty referred to in subitem (1) or (2) of this item is taken to be a decision covered by paragraph 48(1)(a) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 (about reconsideration of decisions).\n\nNote: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 and the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011.\n\n11  Application provisions—compliance and enforcement\n\nMonitoring powers\n\n(1) Section 20 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if subsection 20(1) of that Act also mentioned a provision of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act, including the operation of that provision on or after that commencement.\n\nNote 1: The effect of this subitem is that provisions of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act are subject to monitoring on or after 1 January 2025 under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014.\n\nNote 2: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.\n\n(2) Section 20 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if subsection 20(2) of that Act also mentioned information given in compliance or purported compliance with a provision of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act, including the operation of that provision on or after that commencement.\n\nNote 1: The effect of this subitem is that information given under provisions of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act is subject to monitoring on or after 1 January 2025 under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014.\n\nNote 2: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.\n\nInvestigation powers\n\n(3) Section 21 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if subsection 21(1) of that Act also mentioned the following:\n\n (a) an offence against a former Collection Act or regulations under a former Collection Act, including the operation of that offence on and after that commencement;\n\n (b) an offence against the Crimes Act 1914 or the Criminal Code that relates to a former Collection Act or regulations under a former Collection Act.\n\nNote 1: The effect of this subitem is that offences under a former Collection Act or regulations under a former Collection Act are subject to investigation on or after 1 January 2025 under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014.\n\nNote 2: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.\n\nDefinitions\n\n(4) In this item:\n\nformer Collection Act means:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item; or\n\n (b) the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\n12  Application provisions—information gathering\n\n(1) Section 26 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 applies on and after the commencement of this item as if subsection 26(1) of that Act also applies in relation to information or documents relevant to the operation of a provision of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act, including the operation of that provision on or after that commencement.\n\nNote 1: The effect of this subitem is that the Secretary can gather information or documents relevant to the operation of provisions of a former Collection Act or of regulations under a former Collection Act on or after 1 January 2025 under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\nNote 2: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.\n\n(2) In this item:\n\nformer Collection Act means:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item; or\n\n (b) the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\n13  Transitional provisions—old NRS information\n\n(1) If, before the commencement of this item, information of a kind referred to in subsection 11(1) of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992 was collected and the information is in existence immediately before that commencement, the information is taken, on and after that commencement, to be relevant NRS information for the purposes of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\n(2) If a person holds an approval in force under section 11 of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992 immediately before the commencement of this item, the approval continues in force (and may be dealt with) on and after that commencement as if it were an approval granted under section 72 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\n(3) If relevant NRS information is disclosed to the person under subsection 72(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024, the approval is taken to authorise the person to use that information for a purpose specified in the approval, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\n14  Application provision—reports about recoverable payments\n\nSection 87 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 applies in relation to a financial year ending after the commencement of this item.\n\nSchedule 4—Application, saving and transitional provisions—operation of old law\n\nPart 1—Definitions\n\n1  Definitions\n\nIn this Schedule:\n\ncharge has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\ncollection products has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nhorse disease response levy means levy imposed by section 5 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nlevy has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nlevy year has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nmatching payments means the following:\n\n (a) payments under subsection 66(1) of the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (b) payments referred to in paragraph 5(1)(b) of the Dairy Produce Act 1986, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (c) payments referred to in paragraph 7(1)(c) of the Egg Industry Service Provision Act 2002, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (d) payments referred to in paragraph 8(1)(b) of the Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (e) payments under subsection 16(2) of the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (f) payments referred to in paragraph 9(1)(c) of the Pig Industry Act 2001, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (g) payments under paragraph 30(1)(b) or 30A(1)(b) of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (h) payments referred to in paragraph 6(1)(b) of the Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (i) payments under paragraph 32(ai) of the Wine Australia Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (j) payments referred to in paragraph 31(1)(b) of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nNational Residue Survey Special Account means the National Residue Survey Special Account mentioned in subsection 64(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\nold disbursement law means the following:\n\n (a) the Australian Meat and Live‑stock Industry Act 1997, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (b) the Dairy Produce Act 1986, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (c) the Egg Industry Service Provision Act 2002, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (d) the Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (e) the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (f) the Pig Industry Act 2001, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (g) the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (h) the Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (i) the Wine Australia Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (j) the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nold horse disease response levy law means the following:\n\n (a) the Horse Disease Response Levy Act 2011, and any regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (b) the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, and any regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nold levy or charge law means the following:\n\n (a) the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (b) the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (c) the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (d) the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;\n\n (e) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, and the regulations under that Act, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.\n\nrecipient body has the meaning given by the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\nPart 2—Old levies or charges\n\n2  Saving and transitional provisions—old levies or charges\n\n(1) Subject to this item, in relation to a levy or charge for a collection product, the old levy or charge law continues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to that levy or charge and to a levy year for that product that began before that commencement.\n\nNote: This item ensures, for example, that:\n\n(a) the rights and obligations of intermediaries under section 7 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 continue to apply on and after the commencement of this item; and\n\n(b) late payment penalty can continue to apply under section 15 of that Act on and after that commencement; and\n\n(c) amounts can continue to be recovered by the Commonwealth under section 17 of that Act on and after that commencement as debts due to the Commonwealth; and\n\n(d) refunds can continue to be made under section 18 of that Act on and after that commencement; and\n\n(e) the offence in subsection 24(1) of that Act continues to apply for a failure to give a return under regulations under that Act before, on or after that commencement.\n\n(2) If, in relation to such a levy or charge, the due date for payment of the whole or a part of the levy or charge, or an amount equal to the whole or a part of the levy or charge, is a day (other than the last day) of a calendar month beginning on or after the commencement of this item, then the due date for that payment is taken to be the last day of that calendar month.\n\n(3) If, in relation to such a levy or charge, the due date for lodging a return is a day (other than the last day) of a calendar month beginning on or after the commencement of this item, then the due date for that return is taken to be the last day of that calendar month.\n\n(4) For the purposes of this item, an agreement in force under section 10 or 11 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 immediately before the commencement of this item continues in force under that section on and after that commencement.\n\n(5) This item has effect subject to Part 4 of this Schedule.\n\n3  Saving provision—horse disease response levy\n\n(1) The old horse disease response levy law continues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to horse disease response levy imposed before that commencement.\n\n(2) This item has effect subject to Part 4 of this Schedule.\n\n4  Saving and transitional provisions—old disbursement law\n\n(1) In relation to a levy or charge for a collection product, the old disbursement law continues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to that levy or charge and to a levy year for that product that began before that commencement.\n\n(2) The old disbursement law, to the extent to which it relates to the following:\n\n (a) matching payments to a body;\n\n (b) in connection with those payments—payments from the body to the Commonwealth;\n\ncontinues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 or an earlier financial year.\n\n(3) Once an instrument under subitem 5(6) of Schedule 3 commences in relation to a recipient body and the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025, the Commonwealth is taken to have discharged all of its obligations to that body under the old disbursement law in relation to matching payments to the body for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 or an earlier financial year.\n\n(4) Subitem (3) does not affect the continued operation of any provision of the old disbursement law under which:\n\n (a) a body is required to pay an amount to the Commonwealth; or\n\n (b) that amount is made a debt due to the Commonwealth; or\n\n (c) that amount may be recovered by the Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.\n\n5  Saving provisions—Animal Health Australia\n\n(1) In relation to a levy or charge for a collection product, the Australian Animal Health Council (Live‑stock Industries) Funding Act 1996, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to that levy or charge and to a levy year for that product that began before that commencement.\n\n(2) The Australian Animal Health Council (Live‑stock Industries) Funding Act 1996, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to horse disease response levy imposed before that commencement.\n\n6  Saving provision—Plant Health Australia\n\nIn relation to a levy or charge for a collection product, the Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Act 2002, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to that levy or charge and to a levy year for that product that began before that commencement.\n\nPart 3—National Residue Survey Special Account\n\n7  Saving and transitional provisions—National Residue Survey\n\nCredits\n\n(1) If an amount of levy payable under the National Residue Survey (Customs) Levy Act 1998 or the National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998 is collected by or on behalf of the Commonwealth after the commencement of this item, an amount equal to that amount of levy is to be credited to the National Residue Survey Special Account.\n\n(2) If an amount of penalty in connection with that levy is collected by or on behalf of the Commonwealth after the commencement of this item, an amount equal to that amount of penalty is to be credited to the National Residue Survey Special Account.\n\nDebits\n\n(3) Subsection 8(2) of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the National Residue Survey Account continued in existence under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.\n\nRelease of information before commencement\n\n(4) Section 11 of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the following:\n\n (a) information released to a person under paragraph 11(2)(b) of that Act before that commencement;\n\n (b) the use of that information by a person before, on or after that commencement.\n\n(5) If a person holds an approval in force under section 11 of the National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992 immediately before the commencement of this item, then, for the purposes of subitem (4), and in addition to subitem 13(2) of Schedule 3, the approval continues in force (and may be dealt with) under that section on and after that commencement.\n\nPart 4—Some matters under the old Collection Acts\n\n8  Remission of penalty\n\nA decision cannot be made under section 16 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 or section 8 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as continued in operation under item 2 or 3 of this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\nNote: Instead, a penalty under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 or the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011 can be remitted under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024: see item 10 of Schedule 3.\n\n9  Checking compliance with Act\n\n(1) Sections 19, 19A, 19B, 21 and 22 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the following:\n\n (a) an entry to premises that occurred before that commencement;\n\n (b) a thing seized before that commencement.\n\n(2) Premises cannot be entered under section 19 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as continued in operation under item 2 of this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n(3) Division 2 of Part 3 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the following:\n\n (a) an entry to premises that occurred before that commencement;\n\n (b) a thing seized before that commencement.\n\n(4) Premises cannot be entered under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014, as it relates to the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as continued in operation under item 3 of this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\nNote: Instead, compliance activities relating to the former Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 and regulations under that Act, or the former Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011 and regulations under that Act, can occur in accordance with provisions of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024: see item 11 of Schedule 3.\n\n10  Giving of information\n\n(1) Sections 23 and 24 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to a notice given under section 23 of that Act before that commencement.\n\n(2) A notice cannot be given under section 23 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as continued in operation under item 2 of this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n(3) Sections 11 and 12 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply on and after that commencement in relation to a notice given under section 11 of that Act before that commencement.\n\n(4) A notice cannot be given under section 11 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as continued in operation under item 3 of this Schedule, on or after the commencement of this item.\n\nNote: Instead, a notice can be given under subsection 26(1) of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 to obtain information or documents relating to the former Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 and regulations under that Act or the former Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011 and regulations under that Act: see item 12 of Schedule 3.\n\n11  Offences in relation to weighing cattle carcases\n\nSection 24A of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to cattle slaughtered before that commencement.\n\n12  Disclosure of information\n\n(1) Section 27B of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to information given before that commencement or to an approval given under that section before that commencement.\n\n(2) Information cannot be given or made available under section 27, 27A or 27C of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 on or after the commencement of this item.\n\n(3) Information cannot be disclosed under section 36 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011 on or after the commencement of this item.\n\nNote: Instead, information under the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 or regulations under that Act, or the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011 or regulations under that Act, becomes relevant levy/charge information for the purposes of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024: see item 9 of Schedule 3. The information can then be used or disclosed in accordance with the provisions of Part 5 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024.\n\n13  Reconsideration and review of decisions\n\n(1) Section 28 of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the following:\n\n (a) a decision covered by paragraph (a) of the definition of relevant decision in subsection 28(9) of that Act made before that commencement;\n\n (b) a decision covered by any other paragraph of that definition made before, on or after that commencement.\n\n(2) Section 9 of the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to a decision referred to in subsection 9(1) of that Act made before that commencement.\n\nPart 5—Other provisions\n\n14  Continuing operation of certain provisions\n\n(1) The repeal of the Egg Industry Service Provision (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2002 by Schedule 1 does not affect the continuing operation of any provision of that Act made or expressed to be made for an application, saving or transitional purpose (or that makes provision consequential or related to such a provision).\n\n(2) For the purposes of the operation of a provision of the Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2007 on or after the commencement of this item, as that provision is continued by item 2 of Schedule 5 to the Statute Law Revision (Spring 2016) Act 2016, the successor body is taken to be the first body that was declared under the former Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2007 as the industry services body.\n\n15  Reviews of horse biosecurity response levy\n\n(1) If levy is imposed by regulations under the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 2024 on a disposal of manufactured feed or worm treatment, the Minister must ensure that there are 2 reviews under this item into whether that levy is the most appropriate way of raising money to meet the costs of any emergency response to a disease affecting horses.\n\nFirst review\n\n(2) The Minister must ensure that the first review is undertaken and completed:\n\n (a) before the end of 31 December 2026, unless paragraph (b) applies; or\n\n (b) if:\n\n (i) the rate of that levy is greater than nil on a day in 2026 and the Minister considers that it is appropriate to delay the first review; and\n\n (ii) the rate of that levy subsequently becomes nil;\n\n  as soon as practicable after the rate of that levy so becomes nil.\n\nSecond review\n\n(3) The Minister must ensure that the second review is undertaken and completed:\n\n (a) before the end of the day (the relevant day) that is the fifth anniversary of the day the first review is completed, unless paragraph (b) applies; or\n\n (b) if:\n\n (i) the rate of that levy is greater than nil on a day in the period of 12 months ending at the end of the relevant day and the Minister considers that it is appropriate to delay the second review; and\n\n (ii) the rate of that levy subsequently becomes nil;\n\n  as soon as practicable after the rate of that levy so becomes nil.\n\nReview reports\n\n(4) The persons undertaking a review under this item must give the Minister a written report of the review.\n\nPublication\n\n(5) The Minister must arrange for a copy of the report to be published on the Department’s website.\n\n16  Transitional rules\n\n(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to:\n\n (a) the enactment of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 or the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024; or\n\n (b) the amendments or repeals made by Schedule 1 or 2 to this Act.\n\n(2) To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:\n\n (a) create an offence or civil penalty;\n\n (b) provide powers of:\n\n (i) arrest or detention; or\n\n (ii) entry, search or seizure;\n\n (c) impose a tax;\n\n (d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act;\n\n (e) directly amend the text of this Act.\n\n(3) Parts 1 to 4 do not limit the rules that may be made for the purposes of subitem (1).\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n[Minister’s second reading speech made in—\n\nHouse of Representatives on 18 October 2023\n\nSenate on 16 November 2023]\n\n \n\n(128/23)\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":9,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act performs the narrowly stated purpose: repeal legacy Acts and provide consequential amendments and transitional arrangements to implement the new primary‑industries levy/charge collection and disbursement architecture. It consolidates and migrates existing statutory arrangements rather than introducing substantial policy beyond that framework. The body of transitional provisions is large and detailed, but it serves the same overall scope — enabling continuity and legal alignment with the new Collection and Disbursement Acts — rather than expanding the subject matter into new policy areas."},"complexity_factors":["Repeals 23 separate Acts via Schedule 1 (wide statutory sweep).","Schedule 2 contains 123 amendment items across many Acts (extensive cross‑referencing).","Multiple commencement dates and conditional commencement (some provisions commence on assent, others on 1 Jan 2025, and at least one item is conditional/never commences) (section 2 table).","Large number of redefined and removed terms in the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989 (many definition substitutions and repeals in Schedule 2 items 12–62).","Extensive transitional and saving provisions (Schedules 3 and 4) with nested parts addressing old levies/charges, old disbursement law, NRS account handling, enforcement, information sharing and approvals.","Detailed interaction with other statutory regimes (Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014, Crimes Act/Criminal Code, and numerous industry Acts), creating cross‑statutory dependencies.","Conditional application rules for matching payments, carry‑overs and set‑offs with ministerial notifiable instruments (Schedule 3 item 5) — introduces discretionary instruments and calculation rules.","Preservation of old‑law enforcement and information powers for matters begun before commencement, but replacement for matters after commencement — many exceptions and time‑limited continuations (Schedule 4 Part 4).","Prohibition on certain transitional rules (cannot create offences, taxes, powers of arrest, etc.) while otherwise allowing broad transitional rule‑making (Schedule 4 item 16) — creates fine line for instrument drafters. "],"plain_english_summary":"**What this Act does, mechanically**\n\n- Repeals a package of legacy primary‑industries laws and rewrites many cross‑references so the new levy, charge, collection and disbursement framework operates. Schedule 1 repeals 23 named Acts (for example, older Primary Industries (Excise) and (Customs) Acts, various industry funding Acts and several industry‑specific Acts). (Schedule 1)\n- Makes a large set of consequential amendments to other Commonwealth Acts so those laws point to the new Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024 and the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024 (Schedule 2). Examples include amendments to the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, Wine Australia Act 2013, Biosecurity Act 2015 and others.\n- Provides detailed transitional and savings arrangements so that: existing levy years, debts, collection arrangements, special accounts (notably the National Residue Survey Special Account), approvals and historical information continue to be treated sensibly during the change‑over; and enforcement, monitoring and information‑use powers are aligned across old and new laws while data and rights are migrated (Schedules 3 and 4).\n- Allows the Minister to make limited legislative instruments setting transitional rules (Schedule 4 item 16) but prevents those rules from creating offences, imposing taxes, or conferring enforcement powers such as arrest.\n\nCommencement mechanics (how and when the changes take effect)\n\n- Different parts start at different times: core commencement items (sections 1–3) and anything not otherwise scheduled commence on assent; most repeals and the consequential amendments are staged to begin on 1 January 2025; some transitional provisions begin immediately or the day after assent. The Act sets those commencement details in a table (see section 2).\n\n**Who is affected**\n\n- Producers, processors, exporters and other levy/charge payers in the primary industries (they may pay levies and fees under the new Acts, and some existing obligations and exemptions carry across). (Schedules 3 and 4, e.g. item 2 and item 2 of Schedule 4)\n- Industry statutory bodies and recipients of levy disbursements (research & development corporations, Wine Australia, Fisheries Research & Development Corporation, Rural Industries R&D Corporation etc.). The Act changes how payments to those bodies are referenced and governed (see amendments to the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989 and the new Disbursement Act provisions in Schedule 2, items 12, 35, 56 etc.).\n- Collection agents, intermediaries and persons subject to returns and record‑keeping obligations under the old Collection Acts—those obligations are preserved for levy years started before commencement, but future returns and compliance will be under the new Collection Act. (Schedule 4, Part 2; Schedule 3 items 3–4, 9–12)\n- Commonwealth officials (the Secretary/Department, the Minister) gain new regulatory and transitional implementation roles (for making notifiable instruments, setting carry‑over amounts, and administering data approvals and disclosures). (Schedule 3 items 5(6), 5(7), 13(2), 8(1))\n\n**Why it matters (official purpose claim, and how it operates in practice)**\n\n- Officially the Act is a housekeeping and transition measure: to remove obsolete Acts and align existing primary‑industry law with the new levy/charge collection and disbursement architecture (the new Collection and Disbursement Acts). Mechanically, it redirects references, preserves legacy rights and obligations for in‑flight levy years, migrates National Residue Survey funds and data, and sets rules for matching payments and carry‑overs to recipient bodies. (Long form at the front, Schedules 2–4.)\n\n- Testing that claim against costs, incentives and trade‑offs:\n  - Implementation and administrative risk: the change centralises collection/disbursement references into the new Acts and requires migration of data, accounts and existing contractual arrangements (Schedules 3 and 4). This creates an operational risk (data transfer, system changes, continuity of collections and payments) and a one‑off administrative cost to industry and the Department.\n  - Compliance and behavioural effects: industry actors who previously dealt with different statutory schemes will now deal with a single Collection Act and Disbursement Act; this simplifies long run compliance but imposes short‑term adjustment costs (new rules, new return periods, different exemptions framework). The Act expressly preserves exemptions and return‑period treatment for some affected persons to reduce disruption (Schedule 3 item 4). The Act also preserves older collection powers for matters that began under the old Acts (Schedule 4, Part 4), which reduces abrupt changes but increases legal complexity.\n  - Discretion and regulatory rule‑making: the Minister and regulations have a central role in setting levy/charge rates, exemptions and some transitional instruments (the Act inserts many references to rules/regulations under the new Collection/Disbursement Acts). That concentrates decision‑making in regulations and ministerial instruments, creating opportunities for targeted stakeholder engagement but also concentrating rule‑making power (see numerous amendments in Schedule 2 that shift references to the new Acts and allow regulations to prescribe levies/charges and designated sectors).\n  - Concentrated benefits, diffuse costs: the beneficiaries of continued levy flows and matching payments (R&D corporations, industry service bodies, National Residue Survey) are relatively concentrated; the costs (levies and charges) are spread across producers and sometimes processors and exporters. The Act preserves matching payment entitlement rules and allows set‑off of pre‑existing debts against future payments to recipient bodies (Schedule 3 item 5(7)). That mechanism benefits the Commonwealth (collection of debts) and can reduce net payments to recipient bodies.\n  - Opportunity costs and substitution: where the Act allows new ways to levy (for example, moving some levies/charges to different legislative instruments), industry may face substitution between levy bases, or changes in how votes or governance rights are calculated (amendments to voting and levy payer lists in the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, Schedule 2 items 65–81). Those changes can alter governance leverage within R&D corporations and industry bodies.\n\n**Key operational features to watch**\n\n- Continuity of obligations: old levies/charges continue to apply for levy years begun before the transition date (Schedule 4, item 2).\n- Information and confidentiality: historic levy/charge information and National Residue Survey (NRS) data are carried forward and are defined as \"relevant levy/charge information\" or \"relevant NRS information\" for use under the new Acts (Schedule 3 items 9 and 13). The Act also maps approvals under the old NRS regime into approvals under the new Disbursement Act (Schedule 3 item 13(2)).\n- Enforcement and monitoring: monitoring and investigation powers under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014 will apply to former Collection Act provisions from the transition date as mapped by the Schedule (Schedule 3 item 11), but certain entry and seizure powers tied to the old Acts are preserved only for actions begun before commencement and are restricted thereafter (Schedule 4, Part 4).\n- Matching payments and carry‑overs: the Act phases in the new Disbursement Act’s matching payments timeline (Schedule 3 item 5), allows ministerial instruments for carry‑over amounts and permits set‑off of specified pre‑existing repayments against future disbursements to recipient bodies (Schedule 3 items 5(5)–(7)).\n\n**Who pays, who decides, what changes in behaviour**\n\n- Who pays: producers, processors and exporters remain the practical payers of levies and charges; the Acts preserve existing liabilities for relevant levy years and create the legal pathway for future levies under the new Collection Act. (Schedule 4 item 2 and Schedule 3 items 1–2.)\n- Who decides: the Minister, Secretary/Department and regulations issued under the new Collection and Disbursement Acts do the ongoing rule‑making and administration. The Act also gives Ministers limited power to make transitional notifiable instruments (Schedule 3 item 5(6); Schedule 4 item 16).\n- Behaviour change: short term—administrative adjustment to new return/collection processes, potential re‑calculation of voting rights for R&D bodies, and reclassification of designated industry sectors. Long term—the consolidation creates a single point for levy policy and administration, which may alter how industries negotiate exemptions, governance and funding priorities.\n\n**Implementation risk and compliance burden**\n\n- The Act is largely transitional and consequential, so implementation risk centres on migrating systems, data and account balances (National Residue Survey Special Account explained in Schedule 4 Part 3) and on correct mapping of statutory references in many Acts.\n- Compliance burden is temporary (learning new rules, possibly new return periods) and ongoing (dealing with the new Collection Act and any new regulatory instruments that set levy/charge rates or exemptions). The Act mitigates some disruption by preserving older rules for in‑flight levy years and by expressly carrying forward information approvals.\n\n"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":8,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains strictly within its original purpose as a consequential and transitional instrument. While it touches 36 separate Acts (repealing 23, amending 13), this breadth is necessary to implement the primary industry levy system reforms. The scope has not expanded beyond dealing with the legal fallout from replacing the old levy/charges framework with the new 2024 Acts."},"complexity_factors":["Massive cross-referencing: The Act modifies 13 other Acts and repeals 23, requiring constant mental tracking of which old provision maps to which new provision.","Nested transitional provisions: Schedule 3 and 4 contain multi-layered transitional rules that preserve old obligations while activating new ones, with specific cut-off dates (e.g., 'levy years beginning before commencement').","Conditional commencement: Schedule 2, item 123 has a complex non-commencement trigger tied to another Act's amendment timing.","Definition cascades: Terms like 'old disbursement law' and 'former Collection Act' are defined lists spanning multiple Acts, creating dense definitional dependencies.","Dual operation periods: The Act deliberately runs old and new systems in parallel for certain financial years (e.g., matching payments for FY 2024/25), creating overlapping jurisdictional complexity.","Instrument-making powers: Multiple provisions allow Ministerial rules for transitional matters, creating delegated legislative complexity atop the primary text.","Sector-specific carve-outs: Special handling for wool levies (poll-based rates), horse disease response levies, and fisheries R&D creates exceptions to general transitional rules."],"plain_english_summary":"This legislation is the 'cleanup crew' for a major overhaul of Australia's primary industries laws. It sweeps away 23 old Acts covering everything from dairy and meat to eggs, wool, and wine, and tidies up the loose ends so the new system can work properly.\n\n**What it does:**\n\n*   **Repeals 23 old laws** (Schedule 1) — These include the old Acts that set up levies (taxes) on farmers and producers, the Acts that funded research bodies like Meat & Livestock Australia, and various industry-specific service Acts for dairy, eggs, horticulture, forestry, sugar, and wine.\n*   **Updates surviving laws** (Schedule 2) — It amends 13 other Acts to remove references to the repealed laws and point them to the new replacement Acts (the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024, the Disbursement Act 2024, etc.). This includes updating the Biosecurity Act, the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, and the Wine Australia Act 2013.\n*   **Manages the handover** (Schedules 3 & 4) — It ensures that levies and charges already owed under the old system are still collected, that old debts can still be chased, and that research bodies get their funding without interruption. It also carries over old approvals and exemptions into the new system.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\n*   **Farmers and primary producers** — Anyone who pays levies on livestock, crops, or other primary products.\n*   **Industry research bodies** — Corporations like the Fisheries R&D Corporation, Wine Australia, and the Rural Industries R&D Corporation, which now get their funding through the new Disbursement Act.\n*   **Government agencies** — The Department of Agriculture and various collection agents who handle levy payments.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n\nWithout this Act, repealing the old levy and research funding laws would create legal chaos—debts would be uncollectable, research bodies would lose funding, and references in other laws would point to nothing. This Act ensures a smooth transition from the old fragmented system (where each industry had its own Act) to the new streamlined system (where levies and charges are handled under uniform Collection and Disbursement Acts)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024","history":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024/history","analysis":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/primary-industries-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-act-2024/documents"}}