Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996

No. 3, 1996

An Act to amend the Dairy Produce Act 1986, and for related purposes

Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996

No. 3, 1996

An Act to amend the Dairy Produce Act 1986, and for related purposes

[Assented to 6 June 1996]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996.

2 Commencement

This Act is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1995, immediately after the commencement of the Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1995.

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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 Dairy Produce Act 1986

1 Section 103 (definition of manufacturing milk)

Omit all the words after paragraph (b), substitute “other than market milk”.

2 Section 103

Insert:

market milk means relevant dairy produce on which market milk levy is imposed by paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Dairy Produce Levy (No. 1) Act 1986.

3 Subsection 108(1)

Omit “processed by a manufacturer as liquid milk for human consumption and sold or distributed in Australia as liquid milk for human consumption”, substitute “that a manufacturer knows is market milk”.

4 Transitional

A manufacturer is not guilty of an offence under section 113 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 only because the manufacturer gave or gives the Corporation a return:

(a) relating to a month ending before this Act received the Royal Assent; and

(b) complying with section 108 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 as in force immediately before it was amended by this Act; and

(c) not complying with section 108 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 as amended by this Act.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 1 May 1996

Senate on 9 May 1996]