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

Schedule 4   Application, saving and transitional provisions - operation of old law

Part 2   Old levies or charges

4   Saving and transitional provisions - old disbursement law

(1) In relation to a levy or charge for a collection product, the old disbursement law continues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to that levy or charge and to a levy year for that product that began before that commencement.

(2) The old disbursement law, to the extent to which it relates to the following:

(a) matching payments to a body;

(b) in connection with those payments - payments from the body to the Commonwealth;

continues to apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 or an earlier financial year.

(3) Once an instrument under subitem 5(6) of Schedule 3 commences in relation to a recipient body and the financial year beginning on 1 July 2025, the Commonwealth is taken to have discharged all of its obligations to that body under the old disbursement law in relation to matching payments to the body for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2024 or an earlier financial year.

(4) Subitem (3) does not affect the continued operation of any provision of the old disbursement law under which:

(a) a body is required to pay an amount to the Commonwealth; or

(b) that amount is made a debt due to the Commonwealth; or

(c) that amount may be recovered by the Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.