Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Amendment) Act 2002

No. 36, 2002

An Act to amend the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000

Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Amendment) Act 2002

No. 36, 2002

An Act to amend the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Amendment) Act 2002.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services Act 2000

1  After section 26

Insert:

26A  Access to customs information

  Horticulture Australia Limited, in its capacity as the industry export control body, is taken to be a Commonwealth agency for the purposes of section 16 of the Customs Administration Act 1985.

Note: Section 16 of the Customs Administration Act 1985 allows the Australian Customs Service to disclose information to Commonwealth agencies in certain circumstances.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 14 March 2002

Senate on 19 June 2002]