Compilation #1 | Effective 2016-07-01
FRBR Work URI: /akn/au/act/2015/98
This Act may be cited as the Imported Food Charges (Imposition—Excise) Act 2015.
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.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.
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.
This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
This Act does not extend to Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island or the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands unless the Imported Food Control Act 1992 extends to that Territory.
This Act does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State.
In this section:
property of any kind belonging to a State has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.
(1) The regulations may prescribe a charge in relation to a prescribed matter connected with the administration of the Imported Food Control Act 1992.
The charges prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1) are imposed as taxes.
Two or more charges may be prescribed in relation to the same prescribed matter, and a single charge may be prescribed in relation to 2 or more prescribed matters.
This section imposes a charge only so far as that charge is a duty of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
The regulations may prescribe a charge for the purposes of subsection 6(1):
by specifying an amount as the charge; or
by specifying a method for calculating the amount of the charge.
(2) Before the Governor-General makes regulations for the purposes of subsection 6(1) prescribing a charge in relation to a prescribed matter connected with the administration of the Imported Food Control Act 1992, the Minister must be satisfied that the amount of the charge is set at a level that is designed to recover no more than the Commonwealth’s likely costs in connection with the prescribed matter.
The regulations may prescribe one or more persons who are liable to pay a specified charge prescribed for the purposes of subsection 6(1).
Note: For matters related to the collection of charges prescribed for the purposes of subsection 6(1), see the Imported Food Charges (Collection) Act 2015.
The regulations may provide for exemptions from a charge prescribed for the purposes of subsection 6(1).
The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:
required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
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Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history
Abbreviation key—Endnote 2
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Legislation history and amendment history—Endnotes 3 and 4
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Editorial changes
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Misdescribed amendments
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If a misdescribed amendment cannot be given effect as intended, the abbreviation “(md not incorp)” is added to the details of the amendment included in the amendment history.
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history