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Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1985

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Short Title and commencement

Interpretation

Occupier of orchard to pay levy

Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1985

Public Act		1985 No 3
Date of assent		23 February 1985

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Interpretation
3	Occupier of orchard to pay levy
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Orchard Levy Act 1953

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1985, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Orchard Levy Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 25th day of February 1985.

2 Interpretation

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the definition of the term “Minister”, and substituting the following definition:

“‘Minister’ means the Minister of Agriculture:”.

3 Occupier of orchard to pay levy

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 3 (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1976), and substituting the following section:

“3

“(1)

Subject to subsection (2) of this section, every person who on the 31st day of January in any year is the occupier of an orchard shall pay to the Federation in the month of March in that year a levy calculated at the rate of $10 per hectare of that orchard.

“(2)

The levy payable under subsection (1) of this section in respect of any orchard in any year—

“(a)

Shall not be more than $400; and

“(b)

Shall not be less than the amount (if any) for the time being fixed in that behalf by the Minister, having regard to any recommendation of the Federation, by notice in the Gazette (being an amount not exceeding $50).

“(3)

For the purpose of calculating the payment in March of any year of the levy imposed by subsection (1) of this section, 2 or more orchards of which the same person was the occupier on the previous 31st day of January shall be deemed to constitute a single orchard.”

(2)

The Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1976 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Orchard Levy Amendment Act 1985