CATTLE AND BEEF RESEARCH.

No. 50 of 1961.

An Act to amend the Cattle and Beef Research Acts 1960, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 12th October, 1961.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1961.

(2.) The Cattle and Beef Research Acts 1960, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1960–1961.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Section six of the Cattle and Beef Research Acts 1960 is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Application of the Research Account.

“6.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, moneys standing to the credit of the Research Account may, with the approval of the Minister, be expended—

(a) for the purposes of encouraging the export from Australia of beef and other products of the slaughter of cattle, and of encouraging the raising of cattle in the Territories of the Commonwealth forming part of the Commonwealth, by means of—

(i) scientific, economic or technical research in connexion with matters related either directly or indirectly to those purposes;

(ii) the training of persons for the purposes of any such research;

(iii) the dissemination of information and advice in connexion with scientific, economic or technical matters related either directly or indirectly to those purposes; and

(iv) the publication of reports, periodicals, books and papers in connexion with scientific, economic or technical matters related either directly or indirectly to those purposes;

(b) in payment of fees and allowances payable to a member of the Committee or the deputy of a member under section fourteen of this Act;

(c) in payment of fees and allowances payable to persons appointed by the Minister under section fifteen of this Act; and

(d) in payment of amounts payable to the Board under section sixteen of this Act.

“(2.) The Minister shall not exercise his power to approve the expenditure of moneys from the Research Account for a purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of the last preceding subsection except in accordance with recommendations of the Committee.”.

Retrospective operation of amendment.

4. The section inserted by the last preceding section shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have had effect, on and from the date of commencement of the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1960, in lieu of section six of that Act.