HIDE AND LEATHER INDUSTRIES ACT SUSPENSION.

No. 62 of 1954.

An Act to suspend the operation of certain provisions of the Hide and Leather Industries Act 1948–1953.

[Assented to 6th November, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Hide and Leather Industries Act Suspension Act 1954.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the sixteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four.

Definitions.

3.  In this Act—

“the Board” means the Australian Hide and Leather Industries Board constituted under the Hide and Leather Industries Act;

“the Hide and Leather Industries Act” the Hide and Leather Industries Act 1948–1953.

Suspension of parts of the Hide and Leather Industries Act.

4.  Until the Parliament otherwise provides—

(a) the operation of the following provisions of the Hide and Leather Industries Act is suspended:—

section twelve;

section thirteen;

section sixteen;

paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) of section nineteen;

sub-section (2.) of section nineteen;

section twenty;

section twenty-one;

section twenty-two;

section twenty-three;

paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section twenty-seven;

section thirty;

(b) the operation of sub-section (1.) of section fifteen of the Hide and Leather Industries Act, to the extent that it empowers the Board to license a person to buy hides on behalf of the Board and to buy, sell and otherwise deal in hides on his own behalf, is suspended;

(c) the operation of sub-section (3.) of section fifteen of the Hide and Leather Industries Act, to the extent that it provides that a person or firm licensed under a State Act to buy hides shall be deemed to be licensed under that section, is suspended; and

(d) the operation of section thirty-two of the Hide and Leather Industries Act is suspended except in relation to hides acquired by the Board before the commencement of this Act.

Savings of existing rights, &c.

5.  Section eight of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1950 applies in relation to a provision of the Hide and Leather Industries Act the operation of which is suspended by this Act as if the provision were an Act and the provision had been repealed on the date of commencement of this Act.