Dairy Industry (Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2020

2020/94

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Dairy Industry (Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2020

Patsy Reddy, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 18th day of May 2020

Present:
The Right Hon Jacinda Ardern presiding in Council

These regulations are made under section 134 of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001—

(a)

on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

(b)

on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture made after meeting the requirements in that section.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Dairy Industry (Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2020.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 18 June 2020.

3 Levy

The Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited must pay a levy of $688,771 to the Minister for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2019 and ending on 30 June 2020.

4 Levy exclusive of GST

The amount of the levy in regulation 3 is exclusive of goods and services tax.

5 Revocation

The Dairy Industry (Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2019 (LI 2019/120) are revoked.

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 18 June 2020, require the Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited to pay a levy of $688,771 for the 2019/20 financial year.

The purpose of the levy is to recover some of the Commerce Commission’s costs, including the costs of making determinations and enforcing subparts 5 and 5A of Part 2 of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001.

The levy is calculated by subtracting an over-recovery of those costs of $5,797 (excluding GST) in the 2018/19 financial year from the estimated costs of $694,568 (excluding GST) for the 2019/20 financial year.

These regulations also revoke the Dairy Industry (Fonterra Levy) Regulations 2019, which set the levy for the previous year.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 21 May 2020.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.