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Reprint as at 4 September 2008

Commodity Levies (Asparagus) Order 2006

(SR 2006/156)

Dame Sian Elias, Administrator of the Government

Order in Council

At Wellington this 19th day of June 2006

Present:
The Hon Dr Michael Cullen presiding in Council

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

The Commodity Levies (Asparagus) Order 2006 is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Pursuant to section 4 of the Commodity Levies Act 1990, Her Excellency the Administrator of the Government, acting on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture and on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.

Contents

3 Interpretation

Responsibility for payment of levy

5 Growers responsible for paying levy

Determination of levy by council

6 Calculation of levy

7 Levy to be paid at single rate

8 Maximum rate of levy

9 Minimum levy payment

10 Council must fix actual rate of levy

11 Previous rate to apply

12 Notification of rate of levy

Payment of levy

13 Levy to be paid to council

14 Periods in respect of which levy is to be paid

15 When levy payable

16 Penalty for late payment

Expenditure of levy money

17 Council must spend levy money

18 General purposes for which levy money to be spent

19 Consultation on how levy money to be spent

Recordkeeping requirements and confidentiality of information

21 Records to be kept by commercial asparagus growers

22 Records to be kept by council

23 Confidentiality of information

24 Conscientious objectors

25 Remuneration of persons conducting compliance audits

Mediation in case of dispute

26 Appointment of mediators

27 Remuneration of mediators

29 Time and place of conference

30 Conference to be held in private

31 Right to be heard

33 Mediator may resolve dispute in certain cases

34 Costs of mediation

35 Appeal to District Court

Explanatory note

Gazette information

Order