Commonwealth legislation

Honey Levy (Amount of Levy) (No. 1) Regulations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

193 of 1973

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This regulation sets the amount of honey levy — a fee that honey producers must pay to the government on honey they produce.

Key details:

Rate: The levy is fixed at 1.3 cents per kilogram of honey.
Replacement: It updates the previous levy rate by repealing the 1971 regulations.
Legal basis: Made under the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962-1965.

The money collected through this levy is typically used to fund industry research, marketing, and administration (the specific spending rules are set out in the main Act, not this regulation).

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Honey Levy (Amount of Levy) (No. 1) Regulations

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 193

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HONEY LEVY ACT (No. 1) 1962-1965.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council and having taken into consideration the recommendations made to the Minister by the Australian Honey Board with respect to the rate of levy to be prescribed for the purposes of section 5 of the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962-1965, hereby make the following Regulations under the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962-1965.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of September, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

K. S. WRIEDT

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

HONEY LEVY (AMOUNT OF LEVY) (No. 1) REGULATIONS

Citation.

These Regulations may be cited as the Honey Levy (Amount of Levy) (No. 1) Regulations.

Commencement.

These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1973.

Repeal.

3. The Honey Levy (Amount of Levy) (No. 1) Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1971, No. 140) are repealed.

Rate of levy.

For the purposes of section 5 of the Honey Levy Act (No. 1) 1962-1965, the rate of levy is 1.3 cents per kilogram of honey.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 27 September 1973.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Honey Levy (Amount of Levy) (No. 1) Regulations