Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 2024

The regulations may impose a charge in relation to one or more specified products in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations.

Products may be specified by name, by inclusion in a specified class, or in any other way.

The products must be produce of a primary industry.

Before the Governor‑General makes regulations for the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister must be satisfied that the imposition of the charge will result in one or more of the following:

expenditure on the marketing, advertising or promotion of products of one or more primary industries;

expenditure on research and development activities for the benefit of one or more primary industries;

expenditure on activities, including biosecurity activities, relating to the promotion or maintenance of the health of plants, animals, fungi or algae;

expenditure on matters relating to a biosecurity response;

expenditure on activities relating to the National Residue Survey;

expenditure:

on any other activity prescribed by the regulations in relation to one or more primary industries; and

for the benefit of one or more primary industries.

This section authorises the imposition of a charge only so far as the charge is a duty of customs within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.