Marketing of Agricultural Products Act: Establishment of Statutory Measure and determination of a differentiated levy on planted hectares for funding of an integrated area wide fruit fly control programme in specified production areas (No. R. 621 of 2012).

This Statutory Measure, made by the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, acting under sections 13 and 15 of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act, 1996, impose a differentiated levy on all planted hectares in the specific production regions as listed in this Schedule. The levy is needed by the fruit industry to collect the producers' contribution to integrated area wide fruit fly control programmes in specified production regions.