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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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