The Commodity Levies (Pipfruit) Order 1996
The levy rate for the year ended 31 October 2000, is
2.0 cents per tray carton equivalent (tce) of pipfruit (+ G.S.T.), as passed at Pipfruit Growers New Zealand Incorporated's annual general meeting on the 9th day of September 1999.
A tce equals 18.8 kg of fruit.
There is a minimum levy payable of $150 (+ G.S.T.) and a maximum levy payable of $2,000 (+ G.S.T.).
The levy is calculated on a grower's total production of pipfruit produced in the 1998/99 (1 November 1998 to
31 October 1999).
The levy is payable by pipfruit growers who produced 1000 tces or more of apples and/or European pears in the 1998/99 season.
A request for production information was sent to growers in November and an invoice, based on the information supplied, will be sent in February 2000.
For Further Information Please Contact: Paul Browne, Pipfruit Growers New Zealand Incorporated, P.O. Box
10-704, Wellington. Telephone: (04) 499 7962. Facsimile: (04) 499 7964.