Poultry Industry Levy Collection

No. 67 of 1966

An Act to amend the Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965.

[Assented to 29 October 1966]

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 Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1966.

(2.) The Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Poultry Industry Levy Collection Act 1965–1966.

Commencement.

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

Penalty for non-payment.

3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-sections:—

“(2.) The Minister, or, subject to the next succeeding sub-section, a person authorized in writing by the Minister to grant remissions under this sub-section, may, in a particular case, for reasons that the Minister or the person, as the case may be, in his discretion thinks sufficient, remit the whole or a part of an amount payable under this section.

“(3.) A remission granted under the last preceding sub-section by a person other than the Minister shall not exceed One dollar.”.

Offences.

4. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “One hundred and fifty pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Three hundred dollars”.

5. Section 11 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Access to premises, books, &c.

“11.—(1.) For the purposes of this Act, a person authorized in writing by the Minister to exercise powers under this section may, at all reasonable times and on production of that authority—

(a) enter any building or place in which that person has reason to believe there are—

(i) any hens kept for commercial purposes; or

(ii) any books, documents or other papers relating to the keeping of chickens or hens for commercial purposes or the hatching of chickens;

(b) search for any hens or other domesticated fowls, and any such books, documents or other papers, in any such building or place; and

(c) examine and count any such hens or other domesticated fowls and take extracts from, or make copies of, any such books, documents or other papers.

“(2.) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, obstruct or hinder a person acting in pursuance of an authority under this section.

Penalty: One hundred dollars.”.

Regulations.

6. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph:—

“(ad) requiring persons to keep records relating to chickens or hens kept for commercial purposes;”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) the words “One hundred pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Two hundred dollars”.