Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Amendment Act 1984

No. 147 of 1984

An Act to amend section 10 of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978

[Assented to 25 October 1984]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Amendment Act 1984.

(2) The Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978¹ is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on 1 December 1984.

Time for payment of levy

3. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “third”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:

“(1a) For the purposes of sub-section (1), dried fruit that has come into the custody of a packer shall be taken to continue to be in the custody of the packer so long as it is in the custody of, or is in the course of being sent by the packer to—

(a) an agent appointed by the packer to sell the dried fruit; or

(b) a person to whom the dried fruit is sent by the packer for re-packing on behalf of the packer.”.

Application

4. (1) The amendments made by this Act apply only to dried fruit that was in the custody of the packer immediately before the commencement of this Act or comes into the custody of the packer after that commencement, and the Principal Act as in force immediately before that commencement continues to apply to dried fruit that ceased to be in the custody of the packer before that commencement.

(2) Expressions used in this section have the same meanings as those expressions have in the Principal Act.

NOTE

1. No. 195, 1978, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 80, 1982; and No. 39, 1983.