Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024 (60 of 2024)

Schedule 3   Application and transitional provisions - operation of new law

5   Application and transitional provisions - matching payments

Matching payments to bodies other than the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

(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.

(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.

Matching payments to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

(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.

(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.

Carry-over amounts

(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:

(a) paragraph 24(1)(b) of that Act does not apply; but

(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.

(6) The Minister may make a notifiable instrument for the purposes of paragraph (5)(b).

(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.

Definitions

(8) In this item:

old repayment provision means the following:

(a) subsection 66(3) of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(b) subsection 6(4) of the Dairy Produce Act 1986, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(c) subsection 8(3) of the Egg Industry Service Provision Act 2002, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(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;

(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;

(f) subsection 10(8) of the Pig Industry Act 2001, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(g) subsection 32(1A) of the Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(h) subsection 7(4) of the Sugar Research and Development Services Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(i) subsection 32B(2) of the Wine Australia Act 2013, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item;

(j) subsection 31(7) of the Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.

recipient body has the same meaning as in the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Act 2024.