1998
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1998
No. , 1998
(Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, and for related purposes

ISBN: 0642 377545

Contents
Part 1 - Repeal of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978 3
Part 2 - Saving provision 4
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

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.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 - Repeal of the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 1978 and saving provision

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.

Schedule 2 - Amendment of the Pig Industry Act 1986

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".