DAIRY INDUSTRY STABILIZATION LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1978

No. 95 of 1978

An Act to amend the Dairy Industry Stabilization Levy Act 1977.

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 Dairy Industry Stabilization Levy Amendment Act 1978.

(2) The Dairy Industry Stabilization Levy Act 1977 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on 1 July 1978.

Interpretation

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting after the definition of “dairy products” in sub-section (1) the following definition:

“‘fat’ means milk fat;”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of “skimmilk powder” and substituting the following definition:

“‘skimmilk powder’ means—

(a) powder produced by the removal of water from skimmilk, being powder containing not more than 1.5% of fat and not more than 5% of moisture; or

(b) so much of a powder produced by the removal of water from a mixture of skimmilk and another substance or other substances, being powder containing—

(i) not less than 25% of a substance having the same composition as powder of the kind referred to in paragraph (a); and

(ii) not more than 1.5% of fat and not more than 5% of moisture,

as consists of the substance having the same composition as powder of the kind referred to in paragraph (a);”; and

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

“(3) For the purposes of this Act, where dairy products are produced at a factory, by the proprietor of the factory on behalf of the proprietor of another factory, from milk or a constituent part or parts of milk supplied for the purpose by the proprietor of the other factory, the products shall be deemed to have been produced at that other factory.