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

Schedule 3   Application and transitional provisions - operation of new law

9   Transitional provisions - old levies and charge information

(1) On and after the commencement of this item, the following information is taken to be relevant levy/charge informationfor the purposes of the operation of the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 2024:

(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;

(b) information obtained or generated by a person in the course of or for the purposes of:

(i) administering, or monitoring compliance with, a former Collection Actor regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement; or

(ii) assisting another person to administer, or monitor compliance with, a former Collection Actor regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement.

(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:

(a) administering, or monitoring compliance with, a formerCollection Act or regulations under that Act, including the operation of that Act or those regulations on or after that commencement;

(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.

(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:

(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

(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.

(4) In this item:

former Collection Act means:

(a) the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item; or

(b) the Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Act 2011, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item.

Note: Items 2 and 3 of Schedule 4 continue in operation the former Collection Acts and regulations under those Acts.