PRIMARY PRODUCE EXPORT CHARGES REPEAL.

No. 28 of 1948.

An Act to repeal the Primary Produce Export Organization Act 1935 and the Primary Produce Export Charges Act 1935–1938, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 24th June, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1.  This Act may be cited as the Primary Produce Export Charges Reveal Act 1948.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Repeal.

3.  The Acts specified in the Schedule to this Act are repealed.

Funds and liabilities of prescribed organizations.

4.—(1.)     The Egg Producers’ Council and the Australian Apple and Pear Export Council, being the organizations which, at the commencement of this Act, were prescribed organizations under section four of

the Primary Produce Export Organization Act 1935, shall each be liable to pay to the appropriate Board, as defined by the next succeeding sub-section, all moneys paid to the organization as such a prescribed organization which have not been expended by the organization in pursuance of that Act before the commencement of this Act.

(2.)    The appropriate Board shall, for the purposes of this section be—

(a) in relation to the Egg Producers’ Council—the Australian Egg Board constituted under the Egg Export Control Act 1947; and

(b) in relation to the Australian Apple and Pear Export Council—the Australian Apple and Pear Board constituted under the Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938–1947.

(3.)  A Board shall pay all moneys received by it in pursuance of this section into an account maintained by the Board with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in pursuance of the Act constituting the Board, and all moneys so paid shall form part of the export fund established by that Act.

(4.)  All liabilities of an organization referred to in this section incurred in the course of the performance of its functions as a prescribed organization, and outstanding at the date of commencement of this Act, shall, upon that date, become liabilities of the appropriate Board and may be discharged by payment out of the appropriate export fund.

Sec. 3.                                                  THE SCHEDULE.

Acts Repealed.

Primary Produce Export Organization Act 1935.

Primary Produce Export Charges Act 1935.

Primary Produce Export Charges Act 1937.

Primary Produce Export Charges Act 1938.