Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Repeal of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978 and saving provision 3
Part 1—Repeal of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978 3
Part 2—Saving provision 4
Schedule 2—Amendment of the Pig Industry Act 1986 5

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1998
No. 117, 1998
An Act to amend the law relating to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, and for related purposes
[Assented to 11 December 1998]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1998.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedule 1 commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 1 January 1999.
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Part 1—Repeal of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978
1 The whole of the Act
Repeal the Act.
Part 2—Saving provision
2 Saving provision
(1) Despite its repeal, the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978, as in force immediately before 1 January 1999, continues to apply in relation to all export sales of exported dried fruit to which a separate account for a previous season relates.
(2) In this item:
previous season means a season starting on 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1998.
1 Section 3
Insert:
AFC Processed Meats Forum means those members of the Australian Food Council who are also members of the Processed Meats Forum of that Council.
2 Section 3
Insert:
Australian Food Council means the body registered as a company under the Corporations Law under that name.
3 Section 3 (paragraph (b) of the definition of eligible industry body)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) the AFC Processed Meats Forum; or
4 Paragraph 42(1)(c)
Omit “National Meat Processors’ Association”, substitute “AFC Processed Meats Forum”.
5 Subsection 46(3)
Omit “National Meat Processors’ Association”, substitute “AFC Processed Meats Forum”.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 12 November 1998
Senate on 26 November 1998]
(157/98)