LIVE-STOCK SLAUGHTER LEVY COLLECTION

ACT 1974

No. 112 of 1974

An Act to amend the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964-1973.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1974.

(2) The Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964-1973 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964-1974.

Commencement.

2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 4 shall come into operation on the first day of the month next succeeding the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of “the Secretary” the words “Primary Industry” and substituting the word “Agriculture”.

Deduction of levy from purchase price payable by slaughterers.

4. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (3) the words “two hundred pounds” and substituting the words “90 kilograms”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of that sub-section the words “two hundred and twenty pounds” and substituting the words “100 kilograms”.

Formal amendments.

5. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

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SCHEDULE Section 5

FORMAL AMEDMENTS

1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting the words “the Commonwealth” (wherever occurring) and substituting the word “Australia”.

Sections 7(1), (2), (4), (5), (6) and (7), 8(1), 9(2) and 16.

2. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the following table:—