DAIRYING INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND PROMOTION LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1976

No. 200 of 1976

An Act to amend the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972-1976.

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

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1976.

(2) The Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972-1976 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement.

2. Subject to sub-section 4(2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Section 1 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:—

Short title.

“1. This Act may be cited as the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972.”.

Interpretation.

4. (1) Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of the definition of “producer” the words “or, if, at that time, a person other than the owner of the cow was entitled to obtain the whole milk from the cow, that other person”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(2) For the purposes of this Act and of the Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1972-1976, where whole milk or butter fat produced by a person is not sold by the producer but vests in another person by operation of law, the whole milk or butter fat, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have been sold by the producer to that other person at the time it so vests, and that other person shall be deemed to have purchased the whole milk or butter fat, as the case may be, from the producer at that time.”.

(2) The amendments made by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately after the commencement of the Dairying Research Levy Act 1972.