Pursuant to the Commodity Levies (Fish) Order 2002 (“the Order”) and the Constitution of the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council Limited (SeaFIC), SeaFIC hereby gives notice that:
(a) the Total Levy Rates listed in column 8 of Schedule 1 below are the rates of levy levied on Albacore, required to be notified in terms of clauses 9 and 11 of the Order, for the Levy Year 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006 (inclusive); and
(b) the Core Services Levy Rates, the Stock Specific Levy Rates and the Total Levy Rates in columns 3, 5 and 8 of Schedule 1, are the rates required to be notified in terms of clause 5.1 of the Fifth Schedule to SeaFIC’s Constitution for the Levy Year 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006 (inclusive).
These rates replace those published in the New Zealand Gazette, 1 September 2005, No. 152, page 3762.
Schedule 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Declared PortPrice$ Core Services Levy$/tonne Core Services Levy Rate% Stock Specific Levy$/tonne Stock Specific Levy Rate% TotalLevy$/tonne TotalLevy$/kg TotalLevy Rate%
Non Quota Species
Albacore 2,471.03 12.973 0.525% 0.000 0.000% 12.973 0.012973 0.525%
Dated at Wellington this 19th day of September 2005.
NEW ZEALAND SEAFOOD INDUSTRY COUNCIL.
Explanatory Note
This notice specifies five matters required to be notified by either the Commodity Levies (Fish) Order 2002 or the Constitution of SeaFIC.
They are:
1. the rates of levy to be levied on fish under the Order;
2. the dates on and from which the rates take effect;
3. the Core Services Levy Rates;
4. the Stock Specific Levy Rates; and
5. the Total Levy Rates (which are the same as the rates of levy for the purposes of the Order).
The rates are all notified for the 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006 levy year.
The notice also records for the information of levy payers and others:
? the Declared Port Prices as declared by SeaFIC (column 1);
? the Core Services Levy Rates expressed on a $ per tonne basis (column 2);
? the Stock Specific Levy Rates expressed on a $ per tonne basis (column 4); and
? the Total Levy Rates expressed on $ per tonne and $ per kilo bases (columns 6 and 7).