Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024
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This Act provides for payments to declared recipient bodies, statutory recipient bodies, Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia and for crediting of amounts to the National Residue Survey Special Account.
Payments to declared recipient bodies and statutory recipient bodies
The Commonwealth must pay to declared recipient bodies and statutory recipient bodies amounts connected with various levies and charges collected under rules made under the Collection Act.
The bodies must spend the payments on various activities, including research and development activities and marketing activities for the benefit of primary industries.
The Commonwealth must also make matching payments to the bodies, based on amounts of expenditure on research and development activities or certain other activities by the bodies and on gross value of production amounts.
The bodies must spend the matching payments on various activities, including research and development activities for the benefit of primary industries.
Payments to Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia
The Commonwealth must pay to Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia amounts connected with various levies and charges collected under rules made under the Collection Act.
Animal Health Australia and Plant Health Australia must spend the payments on various activities, including activities relating to the promotion or maintenance of the health of plants, animals, fungi or algae.
National Residue Survey Special Account
There is a National Residue Survey Special Account.
There is credited to the Account amounts connected with various levies and charges collected under rules made under the Collection Act.
The main purpose of the Account is making payments for purposes relating to the following activities:
(a) the monitoring, testing and reporting of the level of contaminants in NRS products or the environment;
(b) the prevention of contamination in, and the management of risks associated with contamination of, NRS products.