Commodity Levies (Feijoas) Order 2001 (SR 2001/205) (as at 03 September 2007)

  • revoked
  • Commodity Levies (Feijoas) Order 2001: revoked, on 6 August 2007, by section 13(1) of the Commodity Levies Act 1990 (1990 No 127).

Regulation by clause

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, imposes a levy on feijoas commercially grown in New Zealand that is payable to the New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association Incorporated by commercial growers or collection agents. The order defines—

  • a commercial grower as a person whose business is or includes producing feijoas and who has more than 50 feijoa trees; and

  • a collection agent as a person whose business is or includes buying feijoas from a commercial grower for processing, resale, or export, or selling or exporting feijoas on behalf of a commercial grower.

A levy for feijoas is also payable by commercial growers to the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation under the Commodity Levies (Orchard Fruit) Order 2001.

Unless earlier revoked, this order expires 6 years after it is made.